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- noun A female
showperson
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Examples
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It's SHOW business, not talent or virtuosity business, and Lee was a master showman, just as Madonna is a master showwoman.
Michael Douglas Starring as Liberace for Steven Soderbergh « FirstShowing.net 2008
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The showwoman was secretly overjoyed to give the strangers a lift on their journey.
The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys M. B. Manwell
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Only the unwearied zeal of the showwoman defied alike thermometer and neglect, She kept her eye on everything, -- on Old
Oldport Days Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1867
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The world is mourning the death of 92-year-old Lena Horne, the incomparable showwoman who passed away this weekend.
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Corny, maybe, but it shows that she is a consummate showwoman.
Jihad Monitor 2010
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Sloan said she's never shied from the underdog role that naturally came competing on a team with Liukin, Shawn Johnson, a showwoman like Alicia Sacramone, and the rest.
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Was not that enough to sicken one with being stuck up for a lion, and constantly poked up by the showwoman, under pretext of keeping up one's spirits! "
Clever Woman of the Family Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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