| 单词 | peristrephic panorama |
| 释义 | > as lemmasperistrephic panorama peristrephic panorama n. a machine which gradually unfolds a panoramic image or series of images before an audience, so as to illustrate a narrative. ΚΠ 1820 in M. Twyman Printing 1770–1970 (1998) 137 Messrs Marshall, the Inventors of the Peristrephic Panoramas, have the honour..to announce..their New and most extensive Peristrephic Panorama of the Grand Coronation. 1829 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xli, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 390 There's something gane wrang wi' the machinery o' the peristrephic panorama. 1873 J. D. Lang Poems 142 'Tis just a Peristrephic Panorama Of a sea voyage and a colonial life. 1935 Frederick (Maryland) Post 23 Feb. 4/2 There is an exhibition of Sinclair's Peristrephic Panorama of events in the life of Napoleon. 1988 K. J. Avery & P. L. Fondera John Vanderlyn's Panoramic View Versailles 11/2 A second and even more popular form was the peristrephic, or moving, panorama, consisting of painted scenery that passed before the viewer, producing the impression that he was traveling in a boat or on a train. < as lemmas |
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