bench show

noun

a dog show in which the animals of each breed are judged and awarded prizes on the basis of standards established for that breed.

An Americanism dating back to 1870–75

We like him but Ran says he wouldn't take a prize at a bench show.

Romulus came to be pointed out to strangers as a coming field-trial champion, and Remus as a famous bench-show winner.

Though an aristocrat of the bench show, this good dog had a brain that worked quickly and a heart that knew no fear.

I'm no connoisseur of dogs, and was never made a judge in a bench show in my life.

At New Haven I bought a paper, and found it filled with glaring display-lines about a "bench-show" there.

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