单词 | showplace |
释义 | showplacen. 1. A place where shows are held; (originally) a place for public displays or spectacles; (later) a theatre, esp. one in which musicals, variety acts, or similar shows are performed. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > [noun] houseOE playhouseOE playing-placea1375 showplace1560 show hall1562 theatre?1577 theatre-house1578 cockpita1616 stage-house1638 show house1674 saloon1747 theatrum1786 spellkenc1800 hippodrome1811 spell1819 show-box1822 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > a public show or spectacle > [noun] > place for public shows sight-court1556 showplace1560 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccxvijv They myghte after consultatyon had, resolue vpon suche artycles, for the Churche expediente as myght be thought mete to bee defended, in the counsel, and publycke Showe place of al Chrystendome [L. publico totius orbis Christiani theatro]. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 996 He assembled all the people in the show place [Gk. τὸ γυμνάσιον], where younge men doe exercise them selues. 1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 120 There was a wild bore put foorth into the open shew-place [L. harenam] for to be baited. 1647 R. Stapleton in tr. Juvenal Sixteen Satyrs 49 Circus, the great show-place neer Mount Aventine. 1724 E. F. Haywood Spy on Conjuror ii. vii. 189 They carried me to the Playhouses and Singing Houses, and all the Shew-Places. 1756 Life & Mem. E. T. Bates iii. 26 He had often been at Shew-places in Town and Country. 1830 Encycl. Americana IV. 297/2 The theatre became little better than a show-place, where spectacles were exhibited, rather than plays performed. 1898 Harper's Mag. Dec. 36 The theatre was no longer the Teatro Italiano; it was the Columbia Opera-House, and like any other cheap American show-place. 1909 Theatre Oct. p. iv One of the most curious theatres in existence is the little Jewish playhouse at Toronto, the only Hebraic showplace in the Dominion. 1953 Times 20 May 4/3 This began as a panorama show-place called the Alcazar in 1880, soon became the Pandora Theatre and finally..opened as the Empire Theatre. 2. A place of beauty or interest attracting many visitors; esp. a mansion or estate which is regularly open to the public for viewing. Also in extended use: any place intended for or worthy of display. Cf. show house n. 3a, show home n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > communication > manifestation > showing to the sight > [noun] > show-place showplace1753 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > house of architectural merit showplace1753 show house1801 show home1857 1753 Court & City Reg. 14 Lord Willoughby..Show Place Lancashire. 1794 J. B. S. Morritt Let. 19 Mar. (1914) i. 10 This [sc. Dresden] I hear is a very fine show-place, particularly for pictures. 1817 M. Edgeworth Harrington & Ormond I. vi. 120 Mamma..generally leaves her at the Priory, to take care of all the old trumpery, and shew the place—you know its a shew place. 1853 ‘C. Bede’ Adventures Mr. Verdant Green v. 35 They soon found a guide, one of those wonderful people to which show-places give birth. 1893 G. E. Matheson About Holland 44 Flushing is not a show place by any means. 1939 Country Life 11 Feb. p. viii (advt.) On the Bedfordshire–Buckinghamshire borders..one of the show places of the county. 1972 Life 4 Aug. 15/2 Painting a house is..really sort of fun. And when the weekend is over, your house is a showplace. 2013 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. (Nexis) 11 Aug. Open for tours, Henderson Hall is gradually being restored to the showplace it was when finished shortly before the Civil War. 3. A place where new or exemplary products, concepts, practices, etc., are exhibited or demonstrated, a showcase. ΚΠ 1905 Pharmaceut. Era 12 Jan. 61/1 The store is a show-place for the laity and for druggists who are visiting New York. 1946 Billboard 23 Mar. 82/3 [He] said he thought the fair was intended as a show place for agriculture. 1985 Times 12 Feb. 2/7 Production of coal stopped yesterday at Wistow, the coal board's showplace pit. 1994 C. Pursell White Heat vii. 180 The American hotel was always a showplace of the newest technologies. 2014 J. A. Mangan Shaping the Superman 69 Some German scientists of this period referred to the Berlin Olympiad as a showplace for human potential. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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