handbill
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of handbill
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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
Targeting a different audience —”Mexicanos y Filipinos” — is a handbill from the time, also on the museum wall.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 24, 2019
A handbill advertising its opening said viewers would see the presidents as they had appeared in life: “the color of their eyes, the color of their hair, the texture of their skin.”
From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2017
“What if we baked small cakes and delivered them to the State House with a handbill advertising our new wares?”
From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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