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raree show

[rair-ee] / ˈrɛər i /
NOUN
peep show
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Q. Has this raree show caused you to wish to enlist in the Royal Navy?

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 15, 1891 by Various

Such thoughts, steady our faith; yet there will rise Some natural tears into the calmest eyes— Which gaze where forest princes haughty go, Made for a gaping crowd a raree show.

From Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 by Margaret Fuller

That monstrous foul beast, with a hey, with a hey, Has houses twain in's chest, with a ho; O Cowper, Hughes, and Snow, Stop thief with raree show, With a hey, &c.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Sir Walter Scott

Come hither, Topham, come, with a hey, with a hey; Bring a pipe and a drum, with a ho; Where'er about I go, Attend my raree show, With a hey, trany, nony, nony, no.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Sir Walter Scott

She wanted to see what sort of raree show an author was; and to let him know, that though Dunbar was but a little town, yet it was not destitute of people of parts.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns




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