Definitions
Optical illusion or misleading hope that seems real but is not.
Word origin
An unadapted borrowing from French mirage c. 1812.
Used in a sentence
“All that had been in his mind seemed suddenly miraged before him—the removal of Hunterleys, his own wife's failing health.”
“The vision of a salon was miraged before her, with herself in the middle deftly manipulating the destinies of a nation.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Desert illusion”6 letters
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