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Circus   /sˈərkəs/   Listen
Circus

noun
(pl. circuses)
1.
A travelling company of entertainers; including trained animals.
2.
A performance given by a traveling company of acrobats, clowns, and trained animals.
3.
A frenetic disorganized (and often comic) disturbance suggestive of a large public entertainment.  Synonym: carnival.  "The whole occasion had a carnival atmosphere"
4.
(antiquity) an open-air stadium for chariot races and gladiatorial games.
5.
An arena consisting of an oval or circular area enclosed by tiers of seats and usually covered by a tent.
6.
A genus of haws comprising the harriers.  Synonym: genus Circus.



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"Circus" Quotes from Famous Books



... reflection that too much success may lead the winners into the professionalism which is so associated with betting and so close to pugilism. Candor, however, compels me to state that a long acquaintance with the acrobatic folk who have to do with the circus, a large number of whom practice in our gymnasium every winter, has raised our ...
— Twenty Years At Hull House • Jane Addams
... rival of those of Verona and of Arles; at a respectful distance it emulates the Colosseum. It is a small Colosseum, if I may be allowed the expression, and is in a much better preservation than the great circus at Rome. This is especially true of the external walls, with their arches, pillars, cornices. I must add that one should not speak of preservation, in regard to the arena at Nimes, without speaking also of repair. After the great ruin ceased to ...
— A Little Tour in France • Henry James
... carriage had hired one o' them plumes for the day, and had it niddle noddling on her head. It were the Queen's Drawing-room, they said, and the carriages went bowling along towards her house, some wi' dressed-up gentlemen like circus folk in 'em, and rucks* o' ladies in others. Carriages themselves were great shakes too. Some o' the gentlemen as couldn't get inside hung on behind, wi' nosegays to smell at, and sticks to keep off folk as might splash their silk stockings. I ...
— Mary Barton • Elizabeth Gaskell
... the midst of this inaccessible circus, where the escaped cannon was tossing from side to side, a man appeared, grasping an iron bar. It was the author of the catastrophe, the chief gunner, whose criminal negligence had caused the accident,—the captain of the gun. Having brought about the evil, his intention was to repair it. Holding ...
— Great Sea Stories • Various
... country circuses are of course popular. Perhaps in no other part of the world can a circus obtain so critical and appreciative an attendance. Christy Minstrels and conjurors apparently do well, considering how very poor some of the miscellaneous entertainments which visit Australia are, it is most remarkable that they should contrive to ...
— Town Life in Australia - 1883 • R. E. N. (Richard) Twopeny


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