showbill

noun

showbill

noun

Etymology From show + bill.

1

A large printed advertisement.

  • The interior of the room was thrown into shadow, partly by the tall edifices that rose on the opposite side of the street, and partly by the immense show-bills of blue and crimson paper that were expanded over each of the three windows.1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Intelligence Office”, in Mosses from an Old Manse:

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