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Showcase

noun

A setting in which something can be displayed to best effect. Synonym: show window.

A glass container used to store and display items in a shop or museum or home. Synonyms: case, display case, vitrine.

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"Showcase" Quotes from Famous Books

... is a huge shop window, carried about the city and delivered daily into hundreds of thousands of homes, to be examined at the leisure of the reader. This shop window is unlike the actual plate glass showcase only in one respect—it makes display ...

— The Clock that Had no Hands - And Nineteen Other Essays About Advertising • Herbert Kaufman

... do you?" Wagner's countenance had become normal again, and with an effort at nonchalance he leaned his elbows back against the glass showcase, glancing the while down at the small man, almost patronisingly. "Well, then, for your benefit, I was merely observing that you filled the bill of what dad here said a bit ago we all were." He smiled tantalisingly; again showing the vacancy in his dental arch. "You remember ...

— Where the Trail Divides • Will Lillibridge

Words linked to "Showcase" : scope, background, case, container, setting, display case, trophy case