What does this sentence mean? 夕刻、夢ト見紛ウ


So I found this song "夕刻、夢ト見紛ウ" by AtF and it was awesome, I know that "夢"
means dream, and the "ト" could be indicating the particle 'and" so, what does
the whole sentence mean?




I'm not sure if I can tell what it means as a sentence, not only because the
structure is vague, but it is possibly not a complete sentence.

と is a case particle rather than conjunction "and" here, composing a part of
AをBと見紛う "mis-see A for B". However, this word is hardly used in its literal
sense. It instead often make a poetic way to say "as if", typically in the
construction ～と見紛うばかりの～.

> 天国と見紛うばかりの絶景 _a marvelous view as if one were at the pearly gates_  
>  山と見紛うほどの巨体 _the hull as gigantic as a mountain_

What 夕刻 "evening" does in this phrase is undecidable. It may be the object of
見紛う or just the time (in this case the object is unspecified) or the subject,
perhaps. The ambiguity could be intentional. You might get the meaning after
reading the lyrics, or not.




I'm not sure if I can tell what it means as a sentence, not only because the
structure is vague, but it is possibly not a complete sentence.

と is a case particle rather than conjunction "and" here, composing a part of
AをBと見紛う "mis-see A for B". However, this word is hardly used in its literal
sense. It instead often make a poetic way to say "as if", typically in the
construction ～と見紛うばかりの～.

> 天国と見紛うばかりの絶景 _a marvelous view as if one were at the pearly gates_  
>  山と見紛うほどの巨体 _the hull as gigantic as a mountain_

What 夕刻 "evening" does in this phrase is undecidable. It may be the object of
見紛う or just the time (in this case the object is unspecified) or the subject,
perhaps. The ambiguity could be intentional. You might get the meaning after
reading the lyrics, or not.

