Raree-show
[rair-ee] /ˈrɛər i/
noun
1.
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2.
a carnival or street show; spectacle.
/ˈrɛəriː/
noun
1.
a street show or carnival
2.
another name for peepshow
“peep show contained in a box,” 1680s, so called “in imitation of the foreign way of pronouncing rare show” [Johnson]. “Johnson’s statement is prob. correct; the early exhibitors of peep-shows appear to have been usually Savoyards, from whom the form was no doubt adopted” [OED]. Early “peep shows” were more innocent than what usually was meant later by that word.
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