a sequence of real or imaginary images like that seen in a dream 一连串梦幻般的影像 what happened next was a phantasmagoria of horror and mystery. 接下来发生的是一连串梦幻般恐怖和神秘的景象。
early 19th cent. (originally the name of a London exhibition (1802) of optical illusions produced chiefly by magic lantern): probably from French fantasmagorie, from fantasme 'phantasm' + a fanciful suffix