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Definition of Cyclorama
1. Noun. A picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous scene.
Generic synonyms: Icon, Ikon, Image, Picture
Derivative terms: Panoramic
Definition of Cyclorama
1. n. A pictorial view which is extended circularly, so that the spectator is surrounded by the objects represented as by things in nature. The realistic effect is increased by putting, in the space between the spectator and the picture, things adapted to the scene represented, and in some places only parts of these objects, the completion of them being carried out pictorially.
Definition of Cyclorama
1. Noun. A display consisting of a continuous series of pictures placed on the walls of a circular room so as to appear in natural perspective by a person standing in the middle. ¹
2. Noun. A large curtain or wall, often concave, hung upstage, in a theatre. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cyclorama
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cyclorama
Literary usage of Cyclorama
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (1887)
"(General Hancock and staff are seen in the left center of the picture.— This and
the two pictures that follow are from the cyclorama of Gettysburg, ..."
2. A History of the New York Stage from the First Performance in 1732 to 1901 by Thomas Allston Brown (1903)
"... THE cyclorama AN iron building situated on the southeast corner of Fourth
Avenue and Eighteenth Street, was known as The Cyclo- rama. ..."
3. Campfires on Desert and Lava by William Temple Hornaday (1908)
"... OF MACDOUGAL PASS AND VOLCANO In the Tule Desert—Farther than Ever from
Pinacate—The Corner of a Vast Volcanic Area—A Weird cyclorama—Monument No. ..."
4. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1887)
"The illustration represents part of a cross- section of a cyclorama. A is the
outer wall ; B, ... cyclorama ..."
5. Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places by Walter Thornbury, Edward Walford (1892)
"... m ™— The cyclorama of Lisbon—St. Katharine's College—The Adult Orphan
Institution—Chester Terrace and Chester Place—Mrs ..."
6. Continental Stagecraft by Kenneth Macgowan, Robert Edmond Jones (1922)
"This cyclorama runs on a semi-circular track hung from the gridiron high above
... At one end of the track is a great roller upon which the cyclorama may be ..."
7. Camp-fires in the Canadian Rockies by William Temple Hornaday (1906)
"CHAPTER VI ON BIRD MOUNTAIN: PHOTOGRAPHING MOUNTAIN SHEEP A Mountain cyclorama—The
Continental Divide—Phillips Peak—A Land Unmapped and Unmeasured—Mountain ..."
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