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ˈpuppet-show
Also 7 poppit-, 8 poppet-.
[f. puppet n. 3 + show n.]
A show, display, or exhibition of puppets; esp. a dramatic performance with or of puppets; a puppet-play. Also transf. and fig.
1650T. Hubbert Pill Formality 138 The devil may buy his soul for a Poppit-shew. 1661Pepys Diary 7 Sept., Here was ‘Bartholomew Fayre’, with the puppet-showe, acted to-day. 1709Steele Tatler No. 16 ⁋2 Prudentia..had bespoke on the same Evening the Poppet-Show of The Creation of the World. 1774J. Harrower Diary in Amer. Hist. Rev. (1900) VI. 87 This night finishes the Puppet shows, roape dancings &c, which has continowed every night this week in town. 1795tr. C. P. Moritz's Travels 88 Electricity happens at present to be the puppet-show of the English. 1807Salmagundi xi. 262, I have seen that great political puppet-show—an Election. 1818Scott Let. 10 Sept., I would much sooner write an opera for Punch's puppet-show. 1836[see looker n. 1 b]. 1857Hawthorne Eng. Note-Bks. (1870) II. 351, I..saw a fair, with puppet-shows, booths of penny actors, merry-go-rounds, clowns, boxers. 1914Amer. Rev. of Reviews Jan. 102/1 The puppet show does not flourish in our American cities. 1951Lambert & Marx Eng. Popular Art i. 6 Bunyan's contemporaries..could see their secular prototypes..in pageants and puppet shows.
attrib.1742Fielding Miss Lucy in Town (1762) 180 You must strip yourself of your poppet-shew dress. 1749― Tom Jones xii. vi, The puppet-show man ran out to punish his Merry Andrew.
Hence ˈpuppet-ˌshower, ˈpuppet-ˈshowman, a man who exhibits or manages a puppet-show.
1715Lond. Gaz. No. 5329/3 Rope Dancers, Poppet Shewers. 1715R. Powel (title) Second tale of a tub: or the history of Robert Powel the Puppet-Show-Man. 1820Edin. Rev. XXXIV. 278 The puppet-showman at a Venetian Carnival. 1855Hawthorne Eng. Note-bks. (1870) I. 347 Tumblers, hand-organists, puppet-showmen,..and all such vagrant mirth-makers. |