showboard

Updated: July 22, 2025

Through the window of the warehouse we saw, lying on the counter or showboard, which was just before it, five pieces of silks, besides other stuffs, and though it was almost dark, yet the people, being busy in the fore-shop with customers, had not had time to shut up those windows, or else had forgot it. This the young fellow was so overjoyed with, that he could not restrain himself.

Daniel Defoe - The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders