puppet shown.
/ˈpʌpᵻt ˌʃəʊ/, U.S. /ˈpəpət ˌʃoʊ/ A dramatic performance enacted with puppets; a puppet play. Also figurative and in extended use.
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1574 G. Fenton tr. J. Talpin Forme Christian Pollicie iii. vii. 143 All Stage Playes, and Enterluders, Puppet shewes, and carelesse Boyes (as wee call them),..haue been alwayes noted of infamie.
1661 S. Pepys Diary 7 Sept. (1970) II. 174 Here was ‘Barthlemew fayre’, with the Puppet Shewe, acted to-day.
1774 J. Harrower Diary in Amer. Hist. Rev. (1900) 6 87 This night finishes the Puppet shows, roape dancings &c, which has continowed every night this week in town.
1795 tr. K. P. Moritz Trav. Eng. 88 Electricity happens at present to be the puppet-show of the English.
1807 Salmagundi 2 June 208 I have seen that great political puppet-show—an Election.
1836 Scottish Christian Herald 1 286/2 Like the keepers of a puppet-show, to extort money from every looker-in.
1857 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 14 July in Eng. Notebks. (1997) II. vi. 338 I..saw a fair, with puppet-shows, booths of penny actors, merry-go-rounds, clowns, boxers.
1914 Amer. Rev. of Reviews Jan. 102/1 The puppet show does not flourish in our American cities.
1951 M. Lambert & E. Marx Eng. Pop. Art i. 6 Bunyan's contemporaries..could see their secular prototypes..in pageants and puppet shows.
2006 Pensacola (Florida) News Jrnl. (Nexis) 22 June 1/3 The students made paper-bag and sock puppets to get ready for their class puppet show.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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