spectacle

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Something exhibited to view; usually, something presented to view as extraordinary, or as unusual and worthy of special notice; a remarkable or noteworthy sight; a show; a pageant; a gazingstock.

A spy-glass; a looking-glass.

An optical instrument consisting of two lenses set in a light frame, and worn to assist sight, to obviate some defect in the organs of vision, or to shield the eyes from bright light.

Fig.: An aid to the intellectual sight.

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As a child, I was taught that it was bad manners to bring attention to yourself, and to never, ever make a spectacle of yourself ... All of which I've earned a living doing. Audrey Hepburn

It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London. Thomas De Quincey

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. Thomas Babington Macaulay

An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle. Walter Bagehot

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul. Victor Hugo

There will be no propriety in the spectacle of an elegant interior approached by a low mean entrance. Vitruvius

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