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showbills

showbills is the plural of showbill.

Meaning of showbill

Noun

showbill (plural showbills)

  1. A large printed advertisement.
    • The interior of the room was thrown into shadow, partly by the tall edifices that rose on the opposite side of the street, and partly by the immense show-bills of blue and crimson paper that were expanded over each of the three windows.1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Intelligence Office”, in Mosses from an Old Manse

Questions about showbills

What is showbills the plural of?
Showbills is the plural of showbill.

Words near showbills in the dictionary

  1. showbags
  2. showband
  3. showbands
  4. showbar
  5. showbill
  6. showbills
  7. showbiz
  8. showbizzer
  9. showbizzers
  10. showbizzery
  11. showbizzy

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