fata morgana

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   a mirage in the Strait of Messina (attributed to the Arthurian sorcerer Morgan le Fay)

   Broadermirage

Questions about fata morgana

What does fata morgana mean?

fata morgana means "a mirage in the Strait of Messina (attributed to the Arthurian sorcerer Morgan le Fay)".

Is fata morgana a common word?

fata morgana is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.