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Dissolving view

Dissolving \Dis*solv"ing\, a. Melting; breaking up; vanishing. -- Dis*solv"ing*ly, adv.

Dissolving view, a picture which grows dim and is gradually replaced by another on the same field; -- an effect produced by magic lanterns.

Usage examples of "dissolving view".

This twaddle about the Rue Blomet, Pamela, the barracks, the lancer, had passed before Marius like a dissolving view.

It was a wild masquerade of all imaginable costumes--every struggling throng in every street was a dissolving view of stunning contrasts.

Then the scene changed again with the rapidity of a dissolving view.