tent show
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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That is certainly the case with “Ghost Town,” equal parts San Francisco Mime Troupe, Chautauqua Circuit tent show, chamber of commerce symposium and “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2016
That film, “Toby and the Tall Corn,” followed a tent show through the Midwest.
From New York Times • Mar. 25, 2011
He saw their first tent show in Santa Monica, Calif., many years ago with longtime lawyer and now estate co-executor, John Branca.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 20, 2010
Why has the television western far surpassed the popularity of its previous incarnations in the dime novel, the tent show, the wide screen?
From Time Magazine Archive
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A tent show in staid, fashionable old Newport is an unheard-of undertaking, and we will have the honor, and, I may add, the profit of inaugurating the fashion.
From A Pirate of Parts by Neville, Richard
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