Lexic.us

Definition of Show window

1. Noun. A setting in which something can be displayed to best effect. "It was a showcase for democracy in Africa"

2. Noun. A window of a store facing onto the street; used to display merchandise for sale in the store.

Definition of Show window

1. Noun. A windowed, street-facing compartment in which a selection of a store's merchandise is displayed. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Show Window

show offs show one's cards show one's face show one's hand show one's true colors show round show somebody the door show stopper show stoppers show the door

show the flag show time show trial show up show willing show window (current term) showability showable showband showbands

showbiz showbizzes showbizzy showboat showboated showboater showboaters showboating showboats showbox

Literary usage of Show window

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. American Druggist (1884)
"My very first admonition is, never put into a show window articles of a perishable nature, like bottles filled with cologne, bay rum, mineral waters, ..."

2. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1909)
"The importance of the show window as an advertising factor cannot be ... The show window is without doubt the most important part of the store. ..."

3. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1906)
"He has a show window on the northerly side of his store and another narrower one on ... This latter show window looks upon its front into Washington Street, ..."

4. Practical Illumination by James Raley Cravath, Van Rensselaer Lansingh (1907)
"show window LIGHTING. Some store windows are lighted to display the goods and ... 352 gives a good idea of the way a show window lighted with a border of ..."

5. Guide to the Current Periodicals and Serials of the United States and Canada by Henry Ormal Severance (1908)
"Merchants' record and show window, 1897, m 2.00 Nickerson & Collins со., 315 Dearborn st., Chicago, lll. ..."

6. Illuminating Engineering Practice: Lectures on Illuminating Engineering by University of Pennsylvania, Illuminating Engineering Society (1917)
"show window Lighting at Stern Brothers' New Store, New York." LJ, 1913, page 264. "show window and Display Lighting." Electrical Review and Western ..."

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