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A picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous scene
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cyclorama
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A cyclorama is a large curtain or wall, often concave, positioned at the back of the apse. It was popularized in the German theater of the 19th century and continues in common usage today in theaters throughout the world. A " cyc " (US theatrical abbreviation) ...
Wiktionary
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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.
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."
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous scene [syn: panorama , diorama ]
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.