- a variation of phantom.
fantom
Britishnoun
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"Simplified spelling" made its debut on Jan. 28, 1934, and schoolteachers all over the Middle West found themselves fighting to save pupils from such Tribisms as hocky, fantom and definitly.
From Time Magazine Archive
O Lélia!" exclaimed the poet, struck by superstition, "are not you that terrible and unhappy fantom?
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I by Henry Cabot Lodge
The lovely fantom becomes Faust's paramour and bears him a remarkable son called Justus Faustus.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. by Kuno Francke
At the left, an aged man, or fantom shade, leaned for support against the throne.
From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 5 July 1906 by Various
Faust has been cautioned by his partner not to touch the fantom forms.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. by Kuno Francke
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