tent show
noun
an exhibition or performance, especially a circus, presented in a tent.
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How to use tent show in a sentence
It was a "tent show, presenting snappy new dramas under canvas."
Main Street | Sinclair LewisMy master boys come through here six years ago wid a tent show.
Slave Narratives: Arkansas Narratives | Work Projects AdministrationThe girls voice sounded wistful now: Wish we could get an act like that we had in the tent show when Neale was with us.
The Corner House Girls' Odd Find | Grace Brooks HillWeve got to get down South where we can get a job with some tent show, Barnabetta declared, deaf to Ruths objections.
The Corner House Girls' Odd Find | Grace Brooks HillAt my left hand sits as singular-looking a human being as I remember seeing outside of a regular museum or tent-show.
The Poet at the Breakfast Table | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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