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Definition of Cycloramas
1. cyclorama [n] - See also: cyclorama
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cycloramas
Literary usage of Cycloramas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Magic: Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions, Including Trick Photography by Albert Allis Hopkins, Henry Ridgely Evans (1901)
"cycloramas have been on exhibition in many cities of the United States, and they
are also very popular abroad. ..."
2. Continental Stagecraft by Kenneth Macgowan, Robert Edmond Jones (1922)
"... plaster cycloramas curving like a great semi-circular wall around the stage;
and thirty canvas cycloramas which are quite as large as the ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"... of the application of science to stage effects and cycloramas and fireworks ;
of automatic and scientific toys; of the kineto- scope and the vitascope, ..."
4. The Bookman (1907)
"There is a certain class of novels that always suggest comparison with "The Cage"
these cycloramas, in so far as they work into the fabric of the story ..."
5. Great Pianists on Piano Playing: Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos by James Francis Cooke (1917)
"... composers do not as a rule try to make either aquarelles or cycloramas with
their music. They write music for what it is worth as music, not as scenery. ..."
6. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1899)
"cycloramas of Havana and t hi; " Maine," and of the great fight between the "Merrimac"
and the "Monitor." were adjacent to each other on the North Midway. ..."
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