All 7 Uses of
spectacle
in
Main Street
- What was a magnificent spectacle of generosity to you was humiliation to me.†
Chpt 14 (definition 1) *
- On the center table was a Sears-Roebuck mail-order catalogue, a silver frame with photographs of the Baptist Church and of an elderly clergyman, and an aluminum tray containing a rattlesnake's rattle and a broken spectacle-lens.†
Chpt 15 (definition 1)
- The audience, on planks beneath the patched tent, admired Mr. Boothby's beard and long rifle; stamped their feet in the dust at the spectacle of his heroism; shouted when the comedian aped the City Lady's use of a lorgnon by looking through a doughnut stuck on a fork; wept visibly over Mr. Boothby's Little Gal Nell, who was also Mr. Boothby's legal wife Pearl, and when the curtain went down, listened respectfully to Mr. Boothby's lecture on Dr. Wintergreen's Tonic as a cure for…†
Chpt 18 (definition 1)
Uses with a very rare meaning:
- "Well, well, you're a sight for sore eyes!" chuckled Mr. Dawson, dropping his newspaper, pushing his spectacles back on his forehead.†
Chpt 11 (definition 2)
- Vida had once beheld Raymie as a thin man with spectacles, mournful drawn-out face, and colorless stiff hair.†
Chpt 21 (definition 2)
- She considered spectacles.†
Chpt 39 (definition 2) *
- She would not wear spectacles yet.†
Chpt 39 (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.