intershow

verb

intershow

verb

Etymology From inter- + show.

1

Rare To show mutually; to show among or between two or more people.

  • it was to all beholders a singular pleasure to observe the love, the joy, and blandishments, each endeavored to enter-shew [translating entrefaisoyent] one another.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
  • Master Lenehan at this made return that he had heard of those nefarious deeds and how, as he heard hereof counted, he had besmirched the lily virtue of a confiding female which was corruption of minors and they all intershowed it too, waxing merry and toasting to his fathership.1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

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