Wild West show
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6.3
- noun
- /waɪld wɛst ʃoʊ/
- Archaic
:
espectáculo del Viejo Oeste
- Buffalo Bill's Wild West show entertained audiences with exciting performances of horsemanship.
- Cody's Wild West show
Examples
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Welcome to Bronco Billy's Wild West Show.
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The Wild West show featured cowboys demonstrating their lasso skills and riding tricks.
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DOC: Ladies and gentlemen, we welcome you this evening... ...to the greatest, the most authentic... ...Wild West Show in America!
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Rodeo and Wild West shows grew simultaneously, with many individuals participating in both.
Academic text (1994) -
Don't you understand what Bronco Billy and the Wild West Show are all about?
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Wild West shows, international expositions, and world fairs also provided sporadic markets for the sale of Lakota art to American and European audiences.
Academic text (2002) -
Many of the Wild West shows, including Cody's, were held in conjunction with fairs, circuses, and expositions, including the large international expositions.
Academic text (2002) -
Beginning with Buffalo Bill Cody's 1883 extravaganza, the major Wild West shows provided another avenue for transmitting the skills and traditions of the charros to the United States.
Academic text (1994) -
Many families attended the Wild West show to enjoy the reenactments of frontier life.
Synonyms
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4.2
A show that travels to different places for people to see
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8.4
A traveling American show from the 1880s that showed horse riding, shooting and frontier life
How Authentic
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is compositionally built from 'Wild West' (the untamed American frontier) plus 'show' (a staged event), so a learner who knows the constituent words can infer it denotes a staged entertainment about the Wild West, featuring cowboys and frontier displays. Specific historical associations (e.g., Buffalo Bill) are cultural details, but the core meaning is directly derivable from the parts.
Etymology
Wild West show comes from large traveling performances in the late 1800s that acted out life in the Wild West, with cowboys, horses and sharpshooters doing stunts. So, the name came to mean a popular 'entertainment' that showed frontier stories and cowboy skills.