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Definition of Circuses
1. circus [n] - See also: circus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Circuses
Literary usage of Circuses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mimic World and Public Exhibitions: Their History, Their Morals, and Effects by Olive Logan (1871)
"About circuses and Pantomimes.—Children as Acrobats. ... I know that boys who.
go to circuses are apt to be fired with the desire to convert the limbs of ..."
2. A Record of the Boston Stage by William Warland Clapp (1853)
"We have not in this record alluded to the various circuses, and other minor
entertainments which were given. The first regular circus of which we find any ..."
3. Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home by Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1841)
"after day to see the ruins of temples to imaginary divinities, triumphal arches,
palaces, circuses, and amphitheatres, memorials of the pride and luxury of ..."
4. European Architecture: A Historical Study by Russell Sturgis (1896)
"... the towering structure above the starting-point of the horsemen and chariots;
the imperial box, and the topmost colonnade, which, in some circuses and ..."
5. History of the City of New York by Mary Louise Booth (1867)
"Beside these, were the Broadway and Mount Pitt circuses, the latter situated in
Grand street, opposite the upper end of East Broadway ; the American or ..."
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