mirage

Borrowed from French mirage.

• IPA^(key): /mɪˈɹɑːʒ/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːʒ

mirage (plural mirages)

1. An optical phenomenon in which light is refracted through a layer of hot air close to the ground, giving the appearance of there being refuge in the distance.
2. (figuratively) An illusion.

• Mirage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• fata morgana
• illusion
• optical illusion

mirage (third-person singular simple present mirages, present participle miraging, simple past and past participle miraged)

1. (transitive) To cause to appear as or like a mirage.
   • 1915, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo‎:

     All that had been in his mind seemed suddenly miraged before him—the removal of Hunterleys, his own wife's failing health.

   • 1901, A. E. W. Mason, Ensign Knightley and Other Stories‎:

     The vision of a salon was miraged before her, with herself in the middle deftly manipulating the destinies of a nation.

• Margie, gamier, imager, maigre

mirer +‎ -age.

• IPA^(key): /mi.ʁaʒ/

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mirage m (plural mirages)

1. mirage

• “mirage” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• émigra
• gémira
• germai
• maigre