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showbill en · NOUN

Etymology

From show + bill.

Meanings

1. A large printed advertisement.
   • The interior of the room was thrown into shadow, partly by the tall edifices that rose on the opposite side of the street, and partly by the immense show-bills of blue and crimson paper that were expanded over each of the three windows. 1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Intelligence Office”, in Mosses from an Old Manse:

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