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
He had seen such visions, such fata morgana, that appeared not unfrequently on this coast, many a time, and had hitherto smiled at such illusions.
From Mohammed Ali and His House by Coleman, Chapman, Mrs.
This mirage, this fata morgana which is so often seen here, has given rise to one of the most beautiful of our North-German legends.
From Vineta The Phantom City by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)
Was it only a delusive appearance, a fata morgana of the desert?
From The Daughter of an Empress by Greene, Nathaniel
