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Idle army deployed in visionary fashion? (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

dreamily

'in visionary fashion?' is the definition.
(in a dreamy way)

'idle army deployed' is the wordplay.
'deployed' indicates an anagram.
'idle'+'army'='idlearmy'
'idlearmy' is an anagram of 'DREAMILY'.

(Other definitions for dreamily that I've seen before include "As if in a reverie" , "Vaguely" , "in abstracted way" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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