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Fata Morgana
/ˌfɑtə mɔɹˈɡɑnə/
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What does Fata Morgana mean?
noun
- Alternative letter-case form of Fata Morgana.
- A form of mirage seen just above the horizon, caused by a temperature inversion in the atmosphere, in which multiple upright and inverted images of a distant object appear to be stacked on top of each other in a highly distorted fashion; especially one seen at sea, and particularly in the Strait of Messina.
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/ˌfɑtə mɔɹˈɡɑnə/
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A wonderful mirage of the Fata Morgana type was visible on August 20.
Nay more, even to them, must not the glories of the water-world be always more momentary than those of the rainbow, a mere Fata Morgana which breaks up and vanishes before the eyes?
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Soon they through dim, bewildering mediums saw her sidelong fading phantom, as in the gaseous Fata Morgana; only the uppermost masts out of water; while fixed by infatuation, or fidelity, or fate, to their once lofty perches, the pagan harpooneers still maintained their sinking lookouts on the sea.