NOUN
- an exhibition of pictures or objects viewed through a small hole or magnifying glass
- a street show
How To Use raree-show In A Sentence
- They would have done so, doubt it not, if they belonged to the many who gaze on those very triumphs as on a raree-show to feed their silly wonder, or use and enjoy them without thankfulness or understanding, as the ox eats the clover thrust into his rack, without knowing or caring how it grew. Westward Ho!
- I produc'd a handful of silver, and spread it before them, which was a kind of raree-show they had not been us'd to, paper being the money of Boston. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1994 Edition)
- But I was very much astonished at the manner in which the Moors were treated, for they were seated on couches, on one side of the state under which Her Majesty sat, as if they were some kind of raree-show, set there to be looked at. Oddsfish!