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cycloramas

cycloramas is the plural of cyclorama.

Meaning of cyclorama

Noun

cyclorama (plural cycloramas)

  1. A panoramic image displayed on the inside of a cylindrical canvas.
    • Robert Loo sat, quite content, behind the counter, against a cyclorama of tins of milk and corned beef.1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 461
    Synonyms:
    diorama
  2. (metonymically) A building or room designed to show this image.
  3. A large, often concave, backdrop, hung upstage in a theater.

Questions about cycloramas

What is cycloramas the plural of?
Cycloramas is the plural of cyclorama.

Words near cycloramas in the dictionary

  1. cyclopædia
  2. cyclopædias
  3. cyclopædist
  4. cyclopædiæ
  5. cyclorama
  6. cycloramas
  7. cycloramic
  8. cycloramphid
  9. cycloramphids
  10. cyclorelease
  11. cycloreversion

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