[mod. f. Gr. κύκλος circle + ὄραμα spectacle.] A picture of a landscape or scene arranged on the inside of a cylindrical surface, the spectator standing in the middle.
1840. Penny Cycl., XVII. 191. The panorama forms the surface of a hollow cylinder … (whence it is … called … cyclorama).
1849. (title) Description of the Royal Cyclorama,… Regent’s Park. Opened in MDCCCXLVIII.
1888. Pall Mall Gaz., 25 June, 11/1. The cyclorama [of Niagara], which has ‘fetched’ all London.
Hence Cycloramic a.
1886. Appleton’s Ann. Cycl., 278 (in Cent. Dict.). The laws of cycloramic perspective.
