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iconic memory

British

noun

psychol the temporary persistence of visual impressions after the stimulus has been removed Compare echoic memory

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Travolta, recalling the iconic memory, admitted he did have some jitters prior to approaching Diana.

From Fox News

You can’t say Lloyd Webber doesn’t have a genius instinct for what audiences want — Grizabella, the “glamour cat” who belts out the iconic “Memory,” doesn’t even appear in Eliot’s original collection.

From Salon

That is the iconic memory of Khrushchev--squat, pinkish, piggy, with glittering eyes, a survivor's cunning and an impishly brutal sense of theater.

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