raree show
Americannoun
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a street show or carnival
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another name for peepshow
Etymology
Origin of raree show
First recorded in 1695–1705; allegedly imitative of a foreign pronunciation of rare show
Example Sentences
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Help Cooper, Hughs, and Snow, with a hey, with a hey, To pull down raree show, with a ho: So, so, the gyant's down, Let's masters out of pound, With a hey, &c.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Scott, Walter, Sir
The anxious reader must not suppose that we were standing all this while, with finger in mouth, idly gaping like children on a raree show.
From The Life of General Francis Marion by Weems, M. L. (Mason Locke)
Such thoughts, steady our faith; yet there will rise Some natural tears into the calmest eyes— Which gaze where forest princes haughty go, Made for a gaping crowd a raree show.
From Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 by Fuller, Margaret
That monstrous foul beast, with a hey, with a hey, Has houses twain in's chest, with a ho; O Cowper, Hughes, and Snow, Stop thief with raree show, With a hey, &c.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Scott, Walter, Sir
After the vice-regal raree show was over, and that the grand folk had been properly bowed into their carriages, and had fairly driven away, there was some diversion to be had.
From Tales and Novels — Volume 09 by Edgeworth, Maria
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