- 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
Gevrol and the governor of the prison were right, then, and M. Segmuller and he, Lecoq, were senseless fools, pursuing a fantom.
From Monsieur Lecoq by Émile Gaboriau
He was another delirium of the night, a fantom of your illness, dear.
From Jacqueline of Golden River by Ralph P. (Ralph Pallen) Coleman
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
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
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