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kaleidoscope
Part of speech: NounAn instrument containing small bits of colored glass, which, by an arrangement of mirrors, are caused to appear in a variety of beautiful patterns.
Usage examples "kaleidoscope":- All moved and changed like figures in a kaleidoscope before Jewel's unwinking gaze; but the long minutes dragged by until at last her father and mother appeared among the passengers who came in procession down the steep incline from the boat. - "Jewel's Story Book", Clara Louise Burnham.
- Presently, however, the kaleidoscope- like mass dissolved into its component parts, and a young lady advanced towards the vicar with a pretty flushed face beneath a French hat, and two little hands stretched out in greeting. - "More About Peggy", Mrs G. de Horne Vaizey.
- If the reader cannot help thinking, with me, that history is merely the constant recurrence of similar things, just as in a kaleidoscope the same bits of glass are represented, but in different combinations, he will not be able to share all this lively interest; nor, however, will he censure it. - "The Art of Literature", Arthur Schopenhauer.