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
I tried fata morgana, mirage, parhelion, and whatever I had learned of recognized illusion, but in vain sought satisfaction, or anything pointing in the direction of satisfaction.
From The Flight of the Shadow by MacDonald, George
Was it, after the sleepless night, because of that exhaustion and that last spurring, an atmospheric phenomenon, an hallucination, an illusion, a fata morgana?
From The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt by Couperus, Louis
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)
