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Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Pepper's Ghost
pep′ėrs gōst, n. a device for associating on the same stage living persons and phantoms to act together—the phantom produced by a large sheet of unsilvered glass on the stage, practically invisible to the spectators, reflecting to them, along with a visible actor or actors, the appearance of another actor on an understage, himself invisible. [John H. Pepper (b. 1821), the improver and exhibitor of Henry Dircks' invention.]
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Pepper's Ghost in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Pepper's Ghost in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
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