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- noun A
place where awatchable event occurs .
Etymologies
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Examples
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There is an open bus going to and from the showground which is sponsored by the North West Evening Mail.
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There is an open bus going to and from the showground which is sponsored by the North West Evening Mail.
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'showground', a large open field in Musina town near the border with Zimbabwe, where 3,000 -
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'showground', a large open field in Musina town near the border with Zimbabwe, where 3,000 -
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Among residents who arrived at the showground were holidaymakers and homeless people with nowhere left to go.
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Stiles was out buying shoes with his wife when the hammer went down on the medal, but his son John Stiles and five other members of the family, including the player's grandson, were at the sale at the Ingliston showground near Edinburgh airport.
Manchester United buy Nobby Stiles 1966 world cup medal for record price at auction Severin Carrell 2010
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Smoke and steam blow sideways from ranks of traction engines at rest after lumbering around the ring of Stithians showground.
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Last night, a steady stream of people arrived at the evacuation centre in Brisbane's showground, only a few minutes' drive from the swollen river.
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Later the traction engines retreated to their corner of the showground and a falconer displayed his birds in the show ring.
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Further, whereas a royal dwelling might be sited next to a showground, a temple, or the houses of noblemen, that of a tyrant should be set well back on all sides from any buildings (Alberti, Art of Building, 5.3.121).
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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