false horizon
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of false horizon
First recorded in 1805–15
Example Sentences
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They ranged southward to the point where vision failed against the false horizon of dull amber haze.
From The Destroying Angel by Louis Joseph Vance
The sky was losing its burnished copper hue and becoming blue again, and, on the false horizon supplied by the crest of the fog-bank, stood a brilliantly vivid panorama.
From The Wheel O' Fortune by Louis Tracy
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