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单词 polyorama
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polyorama
polyorama n.
Brit. /ˌpɒlɪəˈrɑːmə/
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U.S. /ˌpɑliəˈræmə/
now historical an optical apparatus presenting many views, or a view of many objects; spec. (in full polyorama panoptique) one for viewing transparencies, in which the amount of light entering can be varied to suggest different times of day.
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1833 Times 27 Dec. 3/6 Sadlers Wells... In the course of the piece a new moving Polyorama was introduced, which would do honour to houses of much higher pretensions.
1851 Morning Chron. 4 Feb. 5/1 Nearly opposite is the Polyorama, with a series of pictures from Constantinople and the Bosphorus.
1982 Daily Tel. 20 Aug. 10/3 A miniature polyorama panoptique, a sort of two-dimensional peep show in a conical metal casing, dating from 1840, made £450.
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