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Show window   /ʃoʊ wˈɪndoʊ/   Listen
Show window

noun
1.
A setting in which something can be displayed to best effect.  Synonym: showcase.
2.
A window of a store facing onto the street; used to display merchandise for sale in the store.  Synonyms: display window, shop window, shopwindow.






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"Show window" Quotes from Famous Books



... mug," explained Mickey impatiently. "S'pose you do own a grouch, what's the use of displaying it in your show window? Those things are dangerous. They're contagious. Seeing a fellow on the street looking like he'd never smile again, makes other folks think of their woes, so pretty soon everybody gets sorry for themselves. I'd like to see the whole ...
— Michael O'Halloran • Gene Stratton-Porter

... the most was that Kate Gilbert was standing before the show window of a fashionable shop in intimate conversation with ...
— The Brand of Silence - A Detective Story • Harrington Strong

... pocket, and the trouble began. The women saw the snake curled up, ready to spring, and they all went through the door at once, tipping over everything that was loose, and screaming, while the old man, when he saw the snake, got into the front show window and trembled and yelled for the police. A policeman rushed in the store and when he saw the snake he backed out of the door, and the bad boy sat down on a box and began to eat some raisins out of a box, as though he was not particularly interested ...
— Peck's Bad Boy With the Cowboys • Hon. Geo. W. Peck

... is Agnes Dorothea," said Betty, taking her turn, as if it were a game. "She's the delicate one of the family, and a sort of invalid. So he bought her a lavender shoulder shawl that caught his fatherly eye in a show window, because it was so soft and fluffy. But it will shrink and fade the first time it is washed till Agnes Dorothea will look like a homeless cat if she wears it. Still she will persist in putting it on because dear father brought ...
— The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation • Annie Fellows Johnston



Words linked to "Show window" :   window, shop window, background, scope, shopwindow, shopfront, setting, display window, storefront



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