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raree shows

raree shows is the plural of raree show.

Meaning of raree show

Noun

raree show (plural raree shows)

  1. A portable puppet show or picture show as used for public entertainment; a peepshow.
  2. A public spectacle, especially seen as lurid or vulgar.
    • Leaning forward she would be, on the seat of the general's illuminated car, glazed in, a regular raree show!1925, Ford Madox Ford, No More Parades (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 335

Questions about raree shows

What is raree shows the plural of?
Raree shows is the plural of raree show.

Words near raree shows in the dictionary

  1. rarebit
  2. rarebits
  3. rared
  4. raree
  5. raree show
  6. raree shows
  7. rarees
  8. rarefact
  9. rarefacted
  10. rarefacting
  11. rarefaction

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