Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A window in a shop arranged for the display of goods.
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Examples
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Charlie thought he may have seen one as large hi a department-store show-window, but he doubted it.
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“Now,” said he, “put such a bonnet as that in the show-window.”
Acres of Diamonds 2008
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He did not have a hat or a bonnet in that show-window but what some lady liked before it was made up.
Acres of Diamonds 2008
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A show-window delicately rich in error: vases starting out to imitate tree-trunks but running off into blobs of gilt — an aluminum ash-tray labeled “Greetings from Gopher Prairie” — a
Main Street 2004
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The selection of the illumination is - similar to the sales room illumination - determined by the kind of goods exhibited in the respective show-window and by the traffic situation.
9. Commercial Lighting Fittings Frank Ponemunski 1991
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Because they do not supply sufficient sales room illumination, additional general lighting is required in the form of fluorescent lamps placed above the show-window pane behind the window head.
9. Commercial Lighting Fittings Frank Ponemunski 1991
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There were show-window lights on, and the street lamp from outside cast a nice glow.
The Impossibles Laurence M. Janifer 1967
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There were show-window lights on, and the street lamp from outside cast a nice glow.
Out Like a Light Randall Garrett 1957
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I suppose Pateel passed along some sign, for the Imperial Anthem welled out and we all held still for it, Pateel in robotlike attention, myself in a tired stoop suitable to a middleaged and overworked roan who must do this thing because he must, and all the court like show-window pieces.
Double Star Heinlein, Robert A. 1956
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In one of the side streets of a city which fronts on Long Island Sound is to be found a curiosity-shop whose show-window challenges the attention of all lovers of the quaint and queer by its jumble of cracked and ancient porcelain, old-fashioned brasses and small articles of more or less valuable bric-à-brac.
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science Various
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