raree-shown.

Brit.

/ˈrɛːrɪʃəʊ/, U.S.

/ˈrɛriˌʃoʊ/

Forms: 1600s–1800s rary-show, 1600s–1700s rara-show, 1700s–1800s raree-shew, 1700s–1800s rary-shew, 1600s– raree-show, 1700s raræ-show.

Origin: Apparently formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: rare adj.¹, show n.¹

Etymology: Apparently ultimately < rare adj.¹ + show n.¹, with the form of the first element either representing a pronunciation by non-native speakers of English, or a regional pronunciation. Compare Dutch rarekiek (1709).An origin as a pronunciation by non-native speakers is suggested already by Bailey and Johnson. Peep shows were sometimes associated with Savoyards in the 17th and 18th centuries, compare e.g.:1697 Europe's Revels for Peace of Ryswick The Persons Represented in the Interlude..A Savoyard with a Raree Show.1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue 134 Raree Shew Men, poor savoyards who subsist by shewing the magic lanthorn. With the possibility of a regional pronunciation compare the later Irish English variant raree of rare adj.¹, and compare also the following example of rare show from an Irish context:1698 J. Dunton Let. in E. MacLysaght Irish Life in 17th Cent. (1939) 358 I had more curiosity than civility or good nature, which induced my stay to see the performances of the wake which I expected to be no less than a rare show. It has also been suggested that the first element may represent rarity n.; compare German Raritätenkasten peep show, lit. ‘rarity box’ (c1700 or earlier).

1. A set of pictures or a puppet show exhibited in a portable box for public entertainment; a peep show. Now historical.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > optical shows > [noun] > peep-show

piece of perspective1600

raree-show1677

raree-fine show1734

peep show1801

cosmorama1823

1677 Smithfield Jockey 21 To be qualified for a rary Show in Bartholomew-Fair.

1681 Ra-ree Show (broadsheet) Where e're about I go, Attend my Ra-ree show.

a1704 T. Brown Satyr upon French King in Wks. (1707) I. i. 93 May Savoy with thee hither pack, And carry a Raree-Show upon his Back.

1737 H. Fielding Tom Thumb (ed. 3) iii. iv. 43 Why dost thou speak Like Men who carry raree-shows about?

1808 J. Mayne Siller Gun (new ed.) ii. 38 And raree-shows, Entic'd young sparks to entertain, And treat their joes.

1823 W. Scott Peveril IV. vi. 147 Fitter..by his size and appearance, for the inside of a raree-show, than the mysteries of a plot.

1863 J. C. Jeaffreson Live it Down II. iii. 46 When at the corner of Abbey Place (then full of stalls, and raree-shows, and sight-seekers) he found himself seized by a hearty hand.

1956 P. O'Brian Golden Ocean i. 22 Smelling like all fairs in the open and resounding with the cries of the men with raree-shows..performing fleas and medicines for the moon-pall and the strong fives.

2003 J. Flanders Victorian House (2004) xi. 354 Raree shows were still to be seen: these were boxes supported on a stick, in which were pictures—sometimes rude, but more often engravings of public monuments, or famous people—which could be viewed for a halfpenny.

a. In extended use: an exhibition, show, or spectacle of any kind, esp. one regarded as lurid, vulgar, or populist.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > a public show or spectacle > [noun]

spectaclea1340

speculationc1440

steracle14..

triumphc1503

show1565

sprank1568

ostentation1598

presentationa1616

exposition1649

gauds1652

raree-show1681

spectacle1749

exhibition1761

draw1881

spectacular1890

1681 (title) Raree show, or the true Protestant procession.

1684 Hist. Acct. Great Frost 22 Thames becomes a kind of raree-show.

1719 A. Ramsay Epist. to J. Arbuckle 66 [A] poet, or an airy beau, Or ony twa-legg'd rary-show.

1747 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 30 Oct. (1932) (modernized text) III. 1046 Those who only mind the raree-shows of the places which they go through, such as steeples, clocks, town-houses, etc.

1824 J. Symmons tr. Æschylus Agamemnon 75 I long have mark'd Life's raree-show before me in a mirror.

1849 E. FitzGerald Let. 7 Dec. (1889) I. 198 Do you see Dickens' David Copperfield?.. Carlyle says he is a showman whom one gives a shilling to once a month to see his raree-show.

1931 E. Blunden To Themis 22 Colours flying, drums drubbing, boys run miles for the raree-show.

1955 W. Gaddis Recognitions ii. vii. 634 He'll show you... He'll put up a real maudlin raree-show for you.

2003 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 6 Feb. 21 Neither a loaded pistol pointed at my head nor a bribe of lottery-jackpot proportions could have persuaded me to watch Martin Bashir's raree-show about Michael Jackson.

b. As a mass noun: spectacular or lurid display. Now rare.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > a public show or spectacle > type of show or spectacle > [noun] > other shows or spectacles

raree-show1718

cattle-show1815

flower-show1845

baby show1854

trade show1854

horse-show1856

dress parade1870

field show1870

bottle show1883

medicine show1903

aquacade1937

icecapade1940

talent show1955

1718 W. Taverner Artful Wife Prol. Nor has he brought one Fool upon the Stage..No Country-Booby, nor affected Beau, Those Monsters in Dramatick Raree-Show!

1799 T. Dutton in tr. A. von Kotzebue Pizarro in Peru 65 (note) Many of our modern plays..seem to be expressly constructed upon a plan which renders the Author's part a mere vehicle for the introduction of raree-show and sing-song.

1809 W. Scott Let. 16 July (1932) II. 206 Those immense London Stages fit only for pantomime and raree show.

1825 New Monthly Mag. 14 224 Bonaparte had taken good care, in gratifying his own and his people's false taste for raree show, not to degrade himself in the eyes of his subjects.

1852 Mechanics' Mag. 14 Feb. 128/1 Heaven's rarest and highest gifts..should not be wasted in aimless display, which proves that the exhibitor possesses enormous powers of memory and abstraction, and that he throws them away simply upon matters of raree-show.

1922 E. S. Prior Eight Chapters Eng. Medieval Art iv. 61 When Cistercian scrupulosity banished such raree show from the building scheme, the capitals of columns were fashioned as simple bells or just traced with spring leafage.

1952 Shakespeare Q. 3 315 The rage for opera, pantomime, masquerade, and raree show gave both authors and cartoonists chance to bewail decay in taste.

Compounds

General attributive, as raree-show box, raree-show performance, etc.

ΚΠ

1737 London Mag. June 324/2 I presume that he [sc. Punch] will not be tolerated, either upon the Stage, or even in a Raree-shew Box.

1765 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VIII. xxiv. 111 Thou didst look into it with as much innocency of heart, as ever child look'd into a raree-shew-box.

1772 Theatr. Rev. I. 133 It has ever been the custom, during the shameful and unprecedented run of these Raree shew Performances, to obtrude the most insipid Plays and contemptible Actors on the Public.

1807 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life II. xx. 260 Two Men at two of the holes of a raree-show-box.

1812 S. Jones Baker's Biographia Dramatica (rev. ed.) III. 306 A frivolous raree-show performance.

1863 R. Fortune Visits Japan & China x. 153 Montebanks, jugglers..and all the raree-show people who have either some..monstrous animal to exhibit, or animals taught to play tricks.

1939 S. M. Rosenfeld Strolling Players vi. 128 The contrivance of shutting the obstructive guardian in a raree show box, and one passable song are about all the ‘opera’ has to offer.

1998 Manch. Guardian Weekly (Nexis) 20 Dec. 29 An endless troupe of fur salesmen and raree-show hustlers, hat-check girls and bored newspapermen made the long trek to the edge of the Western world.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	raree-show
释义	raree-shown. Brit. /ˈrɛːrɪʃəʊ/, U.S. /ˈrɛriˌʃoʊ/ Forms: 1600s–1800s rary-show, 1600s–1700s rara-show, 1700s–1800s raree-shew, 1700s–1800s rary-shew, 1600s– raree-show, 1700s raræ-show. Origin: Apparently formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: rare adj.¹, show n.¹ Etymology: Apparently ultimately < rare adj.¹ + show n.¹, with the form of the first element either representing a pronunciation by non-native speakers of English, or a regional pronunciation. Compare Dutch rarekiek (1709).An origin as a pronunciation by non-native speakers is suggested already by Bailey and Johnson. Peep shows were sometimes associated with Savoyards in the 17th and 18th centuries, compare e.g.:1697 Europe's Revels for Peace of Ryswick The Persons Represented in the Interlude..A Savoyard with a Raree Show.1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue 134 Raree Shew Men, poor savoyards who subsist by shewing the magic lanthorn. With the possibility of a regional pronunciation compare the later Irish English variant raree of rare adj.¹, and compare also the following example of rare show from an Irish context:1698 J. Dunton Let. in E. MacLysaght Irish Life in 17th Cent. (1939) 358 I had more curiosity than civility or good nature, which induced my stay to see the performances of the wake which I expected to be no less than a rare show. It has also been suggested that the first element may represent rarity n.; compare German Raritätenkasten peep show, lit. ‘rarity box’ (c1700 or earlier). 1. A set of pictures or a puppet show exhibited in a portable box for public entertainment; a peep show. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > optical shows > [noun] > peep-show piece of perspective1600 raree-show1677 raree-fine show1734 peep show1801 cosmorama1823 1677 Smithfield Jockey 21 To be qualified for a rary Show in Bartholomew-Fair. 1681 Ra-ree Show (broadsheet) Where e're about I go, Attend my Ra-ree show. a1704 T. Brown Satyr upon French King in Wks. (1707) I. i. 93 May Savoy with thee hither pack, And carry a Raree-Show upon his Back. 1737 H. Fielding Tom Thumb (ed. 3) iii. iv. 43 Why dost thou speak Like Men who carry raree-shows about? 1808 J. Mayne Siller Gun (new ed.) ii. 38 And raree-shows, Entic'd young sparks to entertain, And treat their joes. 1823 W. Scott Peveril IV. vi. 147 Fitter..by his size and appearance, for the inside of a raree-show, than the mysteries of a plot. 1863 J. C. Jeaffreson Live it Down II. iii. 46 When at the corner of Abbey Place (then full of stalls, and raree-shows, and sight-seekers) he found himself seized by a hearty hand. 1956 P. O'Brian Golden Ocean i. 22 Smelling like all fairs in the open and resounding with the cries of the men with raree-shows..performing fleas and medicines for the moon-pall and the strong fives. 2003 J. Flanders Victorian House (2004) xi. 354 Raree shows were still to be seen: these were boxes supported on a stick, in which were pictures—sometimes rude, but more often engravings of public monuments, or famous people—which could be viewed for a halfpenny. 2. a. In extended use: an exhibition, show, or spectacle of any kind, esp. one regarded as lurid, vulgar, or populist. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > a public show or spectacle > [noun] spectaclea1340 speculationc1440 steracle14.. triumphc1503 show1565 sprank1568 ostentation1598 presentationa1616 exposition1649 gauds1652 raree-show1681 spectacle1749 exhibition1761 draw1881 spectacular1890 1681 (title) Raree show, or the true Protestant procession. 1684 Hist. Acct. Great Frost 22 Thames becomes a kind of raree-show. 1719 A. Ramsay Epist. to J. Arbuckle 66 [A] poet, or an airy beau, Or ony twa-legg'd rary-show. 1747 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 30 Oct. (1932) (modernized text) III. 1046 Those who only mind the raree-shows of the places which they go through, such as steeples, clocks, town-houses, etc. 1824 J. Symmons tr. Æschylus Agamemnon 75 I long have mark'd Life's raree-show before me in a mirror. 1849 E. FitzGerald Let. 7 Dec. (1889) I. 198 Do you see Dickens' David Copperfield?.. Carlyle says he is a showman whom one gives a shilling to once a month to see his raree-show. 1931 E. Blunden To Themis 22 Colours flying, drums drubbing, boys run miles for the raree-show. 1955 W. Gaddis Recognitions ii. vii. 634 He'll show you... He'll put up a real maudlin raree-show for you. 2003 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 6 Feb. 21 Neither a loaded pistol pointed at my head nor a bribe of lottery-jackpot proportions could have persuaded me to watch Martin Bashir's raree-show about Michael Jackson. b. As a mass noun: spectacular or lurid display. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > a public show or spectacle > type of show or spectacle > [noun] > other shows or spectacles raree-show1718 cattle-show1815 flower-show1845 baby show1854 trade show1854 horse-show1856 dress parade1870 field show1870 bottle show1883 medicine show1903 aquacade1937 icecapade1940 talent show1955 1718 W. Taverner Artful Wife Prol. Nor has he brought one Fool upon the Stage..No Country-Booby, nor affected Beau, Those Monsters in Dramatick Raree-Show! 1799 T. Dutton in tr. A. von Kotzebue Pizarro in Peru 65 (note) Many of our modern plays..seem to be expressly constructed upon a plan which renders the Author's part a mere vehicle for the introduction of raree-show and sing-song. 1809 W. Scott Let. 16 July (1932) II. 206 Those immense London Stages fit only for pantomime and raree show. 1825 New Monthly Mag. 14 224 Bonaparte had taken good care, in gratifying his own and his people's false taste for raree show, not to degrade himself in the eyes of his subjects. 1852 Mechanics' Mag. 14 Feb. 128/1 Heaven's rarest and highest gifts..should not be wasted in aimless display, which proves that the exhibitor possesses enormous powers of memory and abstraction, and that he throws them away simply upon matters of raree-show. 1922 E. S. Prior Eight Chapters Eng. Medieval Art iv. 61 When Cistercian scrupulosity banished such raree show from the building scheme, the capitals of columns were fashioned as simple bells or just traced with spring leafage. 1952 Shakespeare Q. 3 315 The rage for opera, pantomime, masquerade, and raree show gave both authors and cartoonists chance to bewail decay in taste. Compounds General attributive, as raree-show box, raree-show performance, etc. ΚΠ 1737 London Mag. June 324/2 I presume that he [sc. Punch] will not be tolerated, either upon the Stage, or even in a Raree-shew Box. 1765 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VIII. xxiv. 111 Thou didst look into it with as much innocency of heart, as ever child look'd into a raree-shew-box. 1772 Theatr. Rev. I. 133 It has ever been the custom, during the shameful and unprecedented run of these Raree shew Performances, to obtrude the most insipid Plays and contemptible Actors on the Public. 1807 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life II. xx. 260 Two Men at two of the holes of a raree-show-box. 1812 S. Jones Baker's Biographia Dramatica (rev. ed.) III. 306 A frivolous raree-show performance. 1863 R. Fortune Visits Japan & China x. 153 Montebanks, jugglers..and all the raree-show people who have either some..monstrous animal to exhibit, or animals taught to play tricks. 1939 S. M. Rosenfeld Strolling Players vi. 128 The contrivance of shutting the obstructive guardian in a raree show box, and one passable song are about all the ‘opera’ has to offer. 1998 Manch. Guardian Weekly (Nexis) 20 Dec. 29 An endless troupe of fur salesmen and raree-show hustlers, hat-check girls and bored newspapermen made the long trek to the edge of the Western world. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1677
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