English

Noun

raree show ‎(plural raree shows)

1. A portable puppet show or picture show as used for public entertainment; a peepshow. [from 17th c.]
2. A public spectacle, especially seen as lurid or vulgar. [from 17th c.]
   • 1925, Ford Madox Ford, No More Parades, Penguin 2012 (Parade's End), p. 335:

     Leaning forward she would be, on the seat of the general's illuminated car, glazed in, a regular raree show!