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Public presentation   /pˈəblɪk prˌɛzəntˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Public presentation

noun
1.
A dramatic or musical entertainment.  Synonym: performance.  "The play ran for 100 performances" , "The frequent performances of the symphony testify to its popularity"






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"Public presentation" Quotes from Famous Books



... Moira Thompson, rising in response to Bessie's nod, "that everybody would like to show Miss Roscoe how we value her as a headmistress. For my part I think there should be a testimonial, subscribed for in the school, and that we might have a public presentation of it." ...
— The Youngest Girl in the Fifth - A School Story • Angela Brazil

... in England for the public presentation of plays was known as The Theater. It was built in London in 1576. In 1598 Shakespeare and his associates, failing to secure a lease of the ground on which this building stood, pulled it down, carried the materials across the ...
— Halleck's New English Literature • Reuben P. Halleck

... public speaker differs not at all from the poet, the novelist, the scientist, the traveler. He must add to his everyday stock, words of value for the public presentation of thought. "A study of the discourses of effective orators discloses the fact that they have a fondness for words signifying power, largeness, speed, action, color, light, and all their opposites. They frequently employ words ...
— The Art of Public Speaking • Dale Carnagey (AKA Dale Carnegie) and J. Berg Esenwein



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