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Definition of Sideshows
1. sideshow [n] - See also: sideshow
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sideshows
Literary usage of Sideshows
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On the Broads by Anna Bowman Dodd (1896)
"I like the beginning, middle, and end, with all the sideshows thrown in." "
Oh, well, come next year, and get in your sideshows. ..."
2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1878)
"... the festive bull-fights were supplemented by various sideshows, and in the
vestibule of the Grand Arena a pugnacious old cock-harpy was pitted against a ..."
3. Mark Twain: A Biography : the Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne by Albert Bigelow Paine (1912)
"The Virginia City people had heard many famous lectures before, but they were
mere sideshows compared with Mark's. It could have been run to crowded houses ..."
4. The North American Review by Making of America Project, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1883)
"But he finds that the continual calls for contribution and for aid in the
entertainments and charitable sideshows of the Church serve the purpose of gauging ..."
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