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wraith
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synonyms: fetch ???
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Definition:1. An apparition of a person in his exact likeness, seen before death, or a little after; hence, an apparition; a specter; a vision; an unreal image. [Scot.]2. Sometimes, improperly, a spirit thought to preside over the waters; -- called also water wraith.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)---n. a spectre: an apparition in the exact likeness of a person seen before or soon after his death.Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (1908)
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In the curved hallway mirror I flit past, a red shape at the edge of my own field of vision, a wraith of red smoke.
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And leap by leap, like some pale frost wraith, the snowshoe rabbit flashed on ahead.
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