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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Relating to or of the nature of a cyclorama.

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Examples

  • When he does impart anything approaching technical information, it's usually to point out an actor's shadow on a cycloramic backdrop or some other "blooper," like Superman's costume drying right after he's gotten it wet.

    Archive 2005-10-16 2005

  • When he does impart anything approaching technical information, it's usually to point out an actor's shadow on a cycloramic backdrop or some other "blooper," like Superman's costume drying right after he's gotten it wet.

    More on the Big S (and a Couple of F Bombs) 2005

  • It is called the "Pantheon de Guerre" and is a marvelous cycloramic painting of the war.

    Birdseye Views of Far Lands

  • To the visitor who would comprehend almost at a glance the cycloramic setting of San Francisco the way is easy of access to half a dozen peaks.

    Fascinating San Francisco Andrew Y. Wood

  • No audience at the Abbey has ever marveled at cycloramic landscape, and no audience and no actress has ever been able to take the joy of the dressmaker and the dressed, of the milliner and the millinered, in gown or hat.

    Irish Plays and Playwrights Cornelius Weygandt 1914

  • In a 1934 guidebook, the city is deemed a place of "amazing paradoxes and fantastic contrasts; Shanghai the beautiful, bawdy, and gaudy, contradiction of manners and morals; a vast brilliantly-hued cycloramic mural of the best and worst of Orient and Occident."

    SFGate: Top News Stories 2010

  • Kaleidoscope (all works 2009), a cycloramic environment designed by Ben Houge, which displays-on six walls and in real time-images taken through a kaleidoscope at the door of the museum.

    artforum.com 2009

  • The huge building also houses the newly restored Gettysburg Cyclorama, an enormous wraparound canvas painting originally created in the 1800s by French cycloramic artist Paul Philippoteaux.

    Summit Daily News - Top Stories By COLETTE CONNOLLY special to the daily 2009

  • [myrmidon = one who carries out orders without question] culminating fascination culpable behavior cultivated ferocity cultured idleness cumbrous fragments [cumbrous = cumbersome; difficult to handle or use] cumulative tendency cunningly contrived curbed profligacy curious coincidence current gossip curry favor cursed inactivity cursory acquaintance curt formality curtained embrasure cutting directness cycloramic sweep cynical disregard

    Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases A Practical Handbook Of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, And Oratorical Terms, For The Embellishment Of Speech And Literature, And The Improvement Of The Vocabulary Of Those Persons Who Read, Write, And Speak English Grenville Kleiser 1910

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