Definition of "show-place" []

• A place for public exhibitions. (noun)
• A gymnasium (which see). (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "A show-place of show-places, it was not often shown."
• "She remained in the hall, which to her simply fancy seemed to be the guest-room -- the show-place wherein were arrayed all the household treasures with the frank purpose of parade and dazzlement."
• "Steep is this mound and scarped, evidently by the hand of man; a deep gorge over which is flung a bridge, separates it, on the south, from a broad swell of open ground called ‘the hill’; of old the scene of many a tournament and feat of Norman chivalry, but now much used as a show-place for cattle, where those who buy and sell beeves and other beasts resort at stated periods."