Chautauqua
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[edit]From Erie [Term?].
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[edit]Chautauqua
- A town and lake resort community in Chautauqua County, New York.
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[edit]Chautauqua (plural Chautauquas)
- (historical) A kind of travelling tent-show which used to move across America featuring popular talks.
- 1974, Robert M[aynard] Pirsig, chapter 1, in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow & Company, →ISBN, part I, page 15:
- What is in mind is a sort of Chautauqua—that's the only name I can think of for it—like the traveling tent-show Chautauquas that used to move across America, this America, the one that we are now in, an old-time series of popular talks intended to edify and entertain, improve the mind and bring culture and enlightenment to the ears and thoughts of the hearer.
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