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Webster 1913 Edition
Fata Morgana
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Fa′ta Mor-ga′na
.[It.; – so called because this phenomenon was looked upon as the work of a fairy (It.
fata
) of the name of Morgána
. See Fairy
.] A kind of mirage by which distant objects appear inverted, distorted, displaced, or multiplied. It is noticed particularly at the Straits of Messina, between Calabria and Sicily.