peep-shows

In addition to the theaters are six peep-shows, in which mid-18th-century miniature stage sets are mounted in wooden viewing boxes and "peeped" at through a magnifying lens that produces the receding perspectival effects that were the marvel of theatrical production from the Renaissance through the 20th century.

Before TV, Theater Was in the Home Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2010

The people who oppose the rezoning are the same ones who wanted to keep the peep-shows and porn shops in Times Square before it was cleaned up.

Our Burden Grows Brooks of Sheffield 2008

There were peep-shows, and swings, and merry-go-rounds, and hobby-horses, and, with so many inducements offered, it will not be supposed that holiday people were wanting.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

Fast food was viewed not much differently than peep-shows, porno-shops, or beer halls; free to do business, but nothing to do with us.

McDonald’s branding and children’s taste | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2007

I'm not nostalgic for the days where Times Square was an area filled with peep-shows and criminal activity that a family couldn't walk through at night (when you might actually have had to be tough for real), but that doesn't mean you get to become a Care Bear.

When Did This Place Become "Nutless Corners"? Mauricio 2007

Try as we may to stay those delightful moments, they fade and pass remorselessly; there is no returning, no recovering, only — for the foolish — the vilest peep-shows and imitations in dens and darkened rooms.

Love and Mr Lewisham Herbert George 2004

Take-out sandwich shops, film processing drop-offs, peep-shows and necktie stores.

Ben Katchor's comics of bygone New York 2002

Take-out sandwich shops, film processing drop-offs, peep-shows and necktie stores.

Ben Katchor's comics of bygone New York 2002

Take-out sandwich shops, film processing drop-offs, peep-shows and necktie stores.

Ben Katchor's comics of bygone New York 2002

He became aware of a rhythmic sound, as of an engine labouring beneath a load too great for it, but there was an obscene quality to it that he recalled from rookie days patrolling sleazy peep-shows on Eighth Avenue, cheap plywood floor and walls sticky with ejaculate and Vaseline.

Black Blade Lustbader, Eric Van 1992