handbill
Americannoun
noun
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“Dance!! Dance!! Dance!! to the music of the Silhouettes Band!!” read the handbill.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2025
Four days later, the men spotted a handbill and called Mr Shetty.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2022
One fear-mongering handbill, “The Vaccination Vampire,” from 1881, for example, pushed the claim that vaccinations would lead to “degradation and extinction,” and were a source of “universal pollution.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 30, 2021
Targeting a different audience —”Mexicanos y Filipinos” — is a handbill from the time, also on the museum wall.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 24, 2019
An undated eighteenth-century handbill announcing an exhibition of three of Vaucanson’s automata: the flute player, the drummer and the digesting duck.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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