- a variation of phantom.
fantom
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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
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
And mist-wreaths twine together— List to a sudden mysterious click, The caddie shudders and shrinks, The scarlet-jacketed heart beats thick— 'Tis the fantom of the links.
From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 by Various
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
He was another delirium of the night, a fantom of your illness, dear.
From Jacqueline of Golden River by Ralph P. (Ralph Pallen) Coleman
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