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Curved wall used as a stage background
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cyclorama
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Word definitions for cyclorama in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous scene [syn: panorama , diorama ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"picture of a landscape on the interior surface of a cylindrical space," 1840, from cyclo- + -rama "spectacle."
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cyclorama \Cy`clo*ra"ma\ (s?`kl?-r?"m? or -r?"m?), n. [Cyclo- + Gr. "o`rama sight, spectacle.] A pictorial view which is extended circularly, so that the spectator is surrounded by the objects represented as by things in nature. The realistic effect is ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Cyclorama is the fourteenth studio album by Styx , released in 2003. This was the first studio album with Lawrence Gowan , following the departure of group co-founder Dennis DeYoung in 1999. It was also the last album to feature Glen Burtnik , and the only ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A display consisting of a continuous series of pictures placed on the walls of a circular room so as to appear in natural perspective by a person standing in the middle. 2 A large curtain or wall, often concave, hung upstage, in a theatre.
Usage examples of cyclorama.
They were of all nations, but there were so many New Yorkers whose names ended in berg, and thal, and stern, and baum that she seemed to be gazing upon a cyclorama of the signs on Broadway.