fata morgana
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In it he wrote: “I saw the iceberg, looming high/ and cold, like a cold fata morgana,/ it drifted slowly, irrevocably,/ white, nearer to me.”
From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2022
He checks Bernstein under "mirage, especially as observed in the Strait of Messina" and finds fata morgana.
From Time Magazine Archive
Was it, perhaps, only an illusive dream that bantered us, only a fata morgana formed by the moonbeams?
From The Daughter of an Empress by Greene, Nathaniel
Before their eyes, as before Greeley in 1864, danced the fata morgana of a convention of all the States, talking, talking, talking.
From The Day of the Confederacy; a chronicle of the embattled South by Stephenson, Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright)
Oh! they have the same sort of deception at sea," declared Jack; "only sailors call it the fata morgana.
From Boy Scouts on Hudson Bay The Disappearing Fleet by Ralphson, G. Harvey (George Harvey)
