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Simulacrum
is always a great word to know.
So is gobo. Does it mean:
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
Example Sentences
- The result is a strange simulacrum of dramatic complexity, a work of superficial depth.
- When you magnify it, it rushes away from you and becomes a simulacrum of its larger self, eventually infinitely long.
- I'd say we've created a pretty fair simulacrum of prosperity, but that's not the same as the real deal.
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Word Origin & History
simulacrum
1599, from L. simulacrum "likeness, image, form, representation, portrait," dissimilated from *simulaclom, from simulare "to make like" (see simulation). The word was borrowed earlier as semulacre (late 14c.), via O.Fr. simulacre.
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