kaleidoscope

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The carnival music-scored title sequence of birds and unhatched eggs in a nest as seen through a kaleidoscope is the most memorable and fitting opening credit sequence so far.

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  1. noun A tube-shaped optical instrument that is rotated to produce a succession of symmetrical designs by means of mirrors reflecting the constantly changing patterns made by bits of colored glass at one end of the tube.
  2. noun A constantly changing set of colors.
  3. noun A series of changing phases or events: a kaleidoscope of illusions.

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  • I send you a very well-constructed kaleidoscope, a newly-invented toy which, if not yet seen in Venice, will I trust amuse some of your female friends.” —  A Publisher and His Friends
  • This sudden turn of the political kaleidoscope was a pivotal point in the life of Ary Scheffer. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters
  • I was enveloped in eyes as one is enveloped in the repetitious patterns of a kaleidoscope, and thought that some defect in my own vision was multiplying Eata's eyes. —  The Shadow of the Torturer
  • The carnival music-scored title sequence of birds and unhatched eggs in a nest as seen through a kaleidoscope is the most memorable and fitting opening credit sequence so far. —  GreenCine Daily
  • Many other pleasing examples could be cited if further turnings of the kaleidoscope were a real need, but this slender discourse is as long now as it should be. —  The Amateur Garden
 

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  1. Greek kalos, beautiful + eidos, form; see weid- in Indo-European roots + -scope.

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  1. French kaleidoscope (from English); irreg. from Greek καλός, beautiful, + ειδος, form, + σκοπεῑν, view.
 

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/kæˈlaɪdəskoʊp/
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