Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
fantascope .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An optical instrument or toy, resembling the phenakistoscope, and illustrating the same principle; -- called also
phantasmascope .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
optical instrument ortoy , resembling thephenakistoscope and illustrating the same principle.
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Ancient Greek image + -scope.
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"with a phantascope and a piano, the victorians used to make their own fun"...
Two pet peeves autopope 2003
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