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Definition of Showplaces
1. showplace [n] - See also: showplace
Lexicographical Neighbors of Showplaces
Literary usage of Showplaces
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Therefore it does not rank with the great showplaces of monas- ticism for the
grandeur and splendor of its buildings, but has ever attracted travelers, ..."
2. The Panama Gateway by Joseph Bucklin Bishop (1913)
"... gardens of beauty—miniature representatives of the jungle—with a wealth of
rare orchids and ferns which made them the showplaces of the isthmus. ..."
3. The Panama Gateway by Joseph Bucklin Bishop (1913)
"... gardens of beauty—miniature representatives of the jungle—with a wealth of
rare orchids and ferns which made them the showplaces of the isthmus. ..."
4. The Panama gateway by Joseph Bucklin Bishop (1913)
"... gardens of beauty—miniature representatives of the jungle—with a wealth of
rare orchids and ferns which made them the showplaces of the isthmus. ..."
5. The Marshall Plan Summer: An Eyewitness Report on Europe and the Russians in by Thomas Andrew Bailey (1977)
"At the last stop of our tourist bus, before one of the palatial showplaces of
Vienna, the middle-aged Austrian woman who was our guide delivered a short ..."
6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Therefore it does not rank with the great showplaces of monas- ticism for the
grandeur and splendor of its buildings, but has ever attracted travelers, ..."
7. The Panama Gateway by Joseph Bucklin Bishop (1913)
"... gardens of beauty—miniature representatives of the jungle—with a wealth of
rare orchids and ferns which made them the showplaces of the isthmus. ..."
8. The Panama Gateway by Joseph Bucklin Bishop (1913)
"... gardens of beauty—miniature representatives of the jungle—with a wealth of
rare orchids and ferns which made them the showplaces of the isthmus. ..."
9. The Panama gateway by Joseph Bucklin Bishop (1913)
"... gardens of beauty—miniature representatives of the jungle—with a wealth of
rare orchids and ferns which made them the showplaces of the isthmus. ..."
10. The Marshall Plan Summer: An Eyewitness Report on Europe and the Russians in by Thomas Andrew Bailey (1977)
"At the last stop of our tourist bus, before one of the palatial showplaces of
Vienna, the middle-aged Austrian woman who was our guide delivered a short ..."
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