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
The snow was fresh and new, but yet the snow was not real nature to her, who always saw her distant landscape, like a fata morgana, quivering in pure incandescence of light.
From Ecstasy: A Study of Happiness A Novel by Couperus, Louis
Could it be water, or was it only the mirage—the fata morgana?
From The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness by Reid, Mayne
"And you say, my son, that I was deceived by a fata morgana" exclaimed the queen, hurrying forward with outstretched arm.
From Frederick the Great and His Court by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)
