Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An exhibition of domestic animals for prizes, with a view to the promotion of their improvement and increase: in the United States usually combined with a sort of agricultural fair.
Examples
“I shut my eyes now and look back to my native town in Massachusetts, and I see the cattle-show ground on the mountain-top; I can see the horse-sheds there.”
“I can see that company of soldiers that had re-enlisted marching up on that cattle-show ground.”
“He will prove to you that the cattle of Rosa Bonheur are those of the fields, while he will object to Landseer that his beasts are those of the guinea cattle-show.”
“I close my eyes now; I look back through the years to 1863; I can see my native town in the Berkshire Hills, I can see that cattle-show ground filled with people; I can see the church there and the town hall crowded, and hear bands playing, and see flags flying and handkerchiefs steaming -- well do I recall at this moment that day.”
“Patrick Henry, Richard Henry Lee, and Thomas Jefferson, into a great barracoon -- a cattle-show of human beings, an emporium, of which the staple articles of merchandise are the flesh and blood, the bones and sinews of immortal man.”
“Jefferson, into a great barracoon -- a cattle-show of human beings, an emporium, of which the staple articles of merchandise are the flesh and blood, the bones and sinews of immortal man.”
“RICHARD HENRY LEE, and THOMAS JEFFERSON, into a great barracoon -- a cattle-show of human beings, an emporium, of which the staple articles of merchandise are the flesh and blood, the bones and sinews of immortal man.”
“On Wednesday there was a cattle-show in the village, of which I would give a description, if it had possessed any picturesque points.”
“Arrived in Waltham, to his great vexation, it appeared, after much inquiry, that Captain Grant lived full three miles from the station, -- and what was worse, every omnibus, hack, buggy, and dog-cart was engaged for a muster in one direction or a cattle-show in another.”
“The good lady enlarged volubly on her destitution of help, and how, if she had any such as we get now-a-days, they were more plague than profit, -- how Laura was getting ready to go with Frank to the cattle-show, and she herself was likely to be the only living mortal in the house for the rest of the day.”
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