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Diorama

noun
1.
A picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous scene.  Synonyms: cyclorama, panorama.






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"Diorama" Quotes from Famous Books



... he can occasionally forgot himself in his surroundings. The Drachenfels, Ehrenbreitstein, the Alps, Lake Leman, pass before us like a series of dissolving views. But the stability of the book depends on its being a Temple of Fame, as well as a Diorama of Scenery. It is no mere versified Guide, because every resting-place in the pilgrimage is made interesting by association with illustrious memories. Coblontz introduces the tribute to Marceau; Clarens an almost complete review, in five verses, of Rousseau; Lausanne and ...
— Byron • John Nichol

... were not more distinct then than formerly,—ideas only and perfectly transient. But, as I have said, once or twice I have had the satisfaction of seeing a bright and coloured landscape spread before my view; yet unlike reality, and more resembling a diorama, occupying a rectangle on the black mixture before my eyes. It was not a known and familiar scene, but a brilliant sketch, made out of materials I remembered, but could not by a deliberate effort have combined so effectively. ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 • Various

... replied, that it was his custom, on going to bed, to call up, in the darkness and stillness, all the incidents of the day's experience, in their proper order, and cause them to move before him like a diorama through a spiritual morning, noon, and evening. "It has often appeared to me," he said, "that in this purely mental process I see objects more distinctly than I behold them in ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 21, July, 1859 • Various



Words linked to "Diorama" :   panorama, ikon, image, picture, icon, cyclorama



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