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  • noun A female showperson

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • The world is mourning the death of 92-year-old Lena Horne, the incomparable showwoman who passed away this weekend.

    Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines 2010

  • Corny, maybe, but it shows that she is a consummate showwoman.

    Jihad Monitor 2010

  • 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.

    Boston.com Top Stories 2009

  • 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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