Both Uses of
spectacle
in
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- The world renowned tragedians, David Garrick the Younger, of Drury Lane Theatre London, and Edmund Kean the elder, of the Royal Haymarket Theatre, Whitechapel, Pudding Lane, Piccadilly, London, and the Royal Continental Theatres, in their sublime Shakespearean Spectacle entitled TheBalcony Scene in Romeo and Juliet !†
Chpt 21 (definition 1) *
Uses with a very rare meaning:
- And I peeped out, and in a little while Tom's Aunt Polly shook herself loose and stood there looking across at Tom over her spectacles—kind of grinding him into the earth, you know.†
Chpt 42 (definition 2) *
Definitions:
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(1) (spectacle) a notable or unusual event that attracts attention
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(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus) The term spectacles is also used to refer to eyeglasses.