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Definition of Raree-show
1. Noun. An exhibition of pictures or objects viewed through a small hole or magnifying glass.
2. Noun. A street show.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Raree-show
Literary usage of Raree-show
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. London by Charles Knight (1851)
"J Here is an engraving of a raree-show man a hundred and fifty years ago. ...
Tempest's raree-show man (Caulfield tells us he was known by the name of Old ..."
2. London by Charles Knight (1851)
"Here is an engraving of a raree-show man a hundred and fifty years ago. In that
box he has stores for the curious, such as the more ancient showman bore ..."
3. Bentley's Miscellany by Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith (1841)
"O raree-show, &c. Here be de Great Turk, and the great King of no tand, ...
O raree-show, &c. Here's de brave English Beau for the Packet Boat tarries, ..."
4. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers, Thomas Thomson (1853)
"... in the Greyfriars' churchyard; but no stone points out to the stranger where
the Scottish minstrel sleeps. or pasteboard automatons in a raree show. ..."
5. Merrie England in the Olden Time by George Daniel (1842)
"O raree-show, &c. Here be de Great Turk, and the great King of no land, A galloping
bravely for Hungary and Poland. 0 raree-show, &c. ..."
6. Political Ballads of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries by William Walker Wilkins (1860)
"THE RAREE SHOW. [This ballad, which alfo relates to the memorable Peace of Utrecht,
... Raree Show."
7. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"Your language is a suitable trumpet raree-show, subs. phr. (old). ... He expressed
a dislike to be visited merely as a raree-show. 1885. ..."
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