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Definition of Coming attraction
1. Noun. A movie that is advertised to draw customers.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coming Attraction
Literary usage of Coming attraction
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Who's who in the Lyceum by Alfred Augustus Wright (1906)
"Rather than copy these interview the local liveryman, butcher, banker or school
teacher who happened to see and hear the coming attraction at some other ..."
2. The Americanization of Edward Bok: The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty by Edward William Bok (1922)
"... with nothing in it save the cast, a few advertisements, and an announcement
of some coming attraction. The boy mechanically folded the programme, ..."
3. The Country Church in the New World Order by Edmund de Schweinitz Brunner (1919)
"The talk at the table was of the last week's movies, the last prize fight, the
coming attraction at the park or theater. Yet about these people lay ..."
4. Publicity Campaigns for Better School Support by Carter Alexander, William Walter Theisen (1921)
"... new business venture, to win votes for political candidates, or to secure
attendance at a coming attraction may well be followed in school-fund drives. ..."
5. Claudine the Circus Woman by Timothy J. Quinlan (2000)
"It will serve as a coming attraction for us in much the same way the coming
attractions serve as coming attractions in the movies to let us know what is ..."
6. The Print of My Remembrance by Augustus Thomas (1922)
"When an agent of a coming attraction arrived and began his preliminary talk
through the box-office window with McManus he would be puzzled by George's ..."
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