Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to or of the nature of a cyclorama.
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Examples
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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
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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.
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It is called the "Pantheon de Guerre" and is a marvelous cycloramic painting of the war.
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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
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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
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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."
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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
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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
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