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Raree-show   Listen
noun
Raree-show  n.  A show carried about in a box; a peep show.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Raree-show" Quotes from Famous Books



... to the President's levee that evening, Rosa said. A sort of raree-show—was it not? with the Chief Magistrate for head mountebank. He was worse off in one respect than the poorest cottager in the nation he was commonly reported to govern, inasmuch as he had not the right to invite whom he pleased to his house, and ...
— At Last • Marion Harland

... our village, when I was six years old, a man who carried about a raree-show, which all the children of the parish were fond of seeing; but I had taken it into my head, that it was beneath my wisdom to see raree-shows; and therefore would not be persuaded to join my companions to see this ...
— The Governess - The Little Female Academy • Sarah Fielding



Words linked to "Raree-show" :   exhibition, exposition, expo, show



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