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ˈshow-place
[Cf. G. schauplatz = sense 1.]
†1. A place for public shows or spectacles; a theatre. (Used to render θέατρον, circus, etc.)
1579–80North Plutarch, Antonius (1595) 994 He assembled all the people in the shew place, where young men doe exercise themselues. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 96 Whither men flocke to heare, as at the Theaters and shew places. 1647R. Stapylton Juvenal (1670) 49 Circus, the great show-place neer mount Aventine.
2. A place (e.g. a large mansion or estate) which is regularly exhibited to visitors; a place much visited for its beauty, antiquities, or the like.
1794J. B. S. Morritt Let. 19 Mar. (1914) i. 10 This [sc. Dresden] I hear is a very fine show-place, particularly for pictures. 1817M. Edgeworth Harrington vi, Mamma..generally leaves her at the Priory, to take care of all the old trumpery, and show the place—you know it's a show place. 1853‘C. Bede’ Verdant Green i. v, They soon found a guide, one of those wonderful people to which show-places give birth. 1888Payn Myst. Mirbridge xvii, ‘A show⁓place’—as country mansions important enough for exhibition are called. 1893Matheson About Holland 44 Flushing is not a show place by any means. |