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chautauqua

/ʃəˈtɔkwə/

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What does chautauqua mean?

noun

  1. Alternative form of Chautauqua.

proper noun

  1. A town and lake resort community in Chautauqua County, New York.
More meanings (1)

noun

  1. (historical) A kind of travelling tent-show which used to move across America featuring popular talks.

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IPA pronunciation

/ʃəˈtɔkwə/

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Once when I was giving a series of Chautauqua lectures, I spoke at the Chautauqua in Pontiac, Illinois.
Anna Howard Shaw; Elizabeth Garver JordanThe Story of a PioneerProject Gutenberg ebook #354
But this Chicago preacher went from one chautauqua town to another, and took his vacation going up and down the streets.
Ralph Albert ParletteThe University of Hard KnocksProject Gutenberg ebook #455
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It goes on wholesale for months every summer at Lily Dale, in New York State, where the spiritualists hold their combination of Chautauqua and Coney Island.
Upton SinclairThe Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic InterpretationProject Gutenberg ebook #1558
He knew but little of the affair at Chautauqua.
Robert S. (Robert Sproul) CarrollOur Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of NervousnessProject Gutenberg ebook #5994
The roads continue good, and after dinner I reach Westfield, six miles from the famous Lake Chautauqua, which beautiful hill and forest embowered sheet of water is popularly believed by many of its numerous local admirers to be the highest navigable lake in the world.
Thomas StevensAround the World on a Bicycle - Volume I From San Francisco to TeheranProject Gutenberg ebook #5136