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world exposition

American  

noun

(often initial capital letters)
  1. world's fair.


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Japanese-style gardens first caught the public imagination in the U.S. at an 1893 world exposition in Chicago, became a sought-after feature in Gilded Age estates, and were later adapted to open-plan modernist homes.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 26, 2021

By the time the world exposition at Paris opened in May 1900, however, Mr. Murray had located 1,100 titles written by Negro authors, of which about 500 were forwarded to the exposition.

From The Negro in the United States; a selected bibliography. Compiled by Dorothy B. Porter by Dorothy B. Porter

Its people planned a great world exposition to celebrate the opening of the Panama Canal.

From Port O' Gold A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts by Louis J. (Louis John) Stellman

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