showshop

noun

1

: a shop where salable wares are displayed

2

: theater

the realm of the showshops … where a hummable melody … is apt to be the highest musical expectation

—John Mason Brown

a fairly clever farce-melodrama … not without its entertaining moments, its showshop shrewdness

—New Republic

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