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
He was another delirium of the night, a fantom of your illness, dear.
From Jacqueline of Golden River by Coleman, Ralph P. (Ralph Pallen)
Hist! when you feel a thrill in the breeze, A whisper that rises and sinks, When there looms a shape by the misty trees— 'Tis the fantom of the links.
From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 by Various
"Our tea at the chateau was almost a fantom tea."
From Ruth Fielding at the War Front or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldier by Emerson, Alice B.
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 Francke, Kuno
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