Talk:flimmer

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Flimmer is included in Carl Sandburg's poem Haze Gold.90.190.225.121 21:20, 15 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Apparently from German Flimmer, which we also don't have. It is rather rare except in biology and medicine, I think. DCDuring TALK 12:33, 4 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Sandburg seems to have used the word at least three times in his published works. DCDuring TALK 12:33, 4 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]


from Nabokov's lecture on Kafka:

His numerous legs, which were pitifully thin compared to the rest of his bulk, flimmered [flicker + shimmer] helplessly before his eyes. Quinnov (talk) 09:22, 21 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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