A glass container used to store and display items in a shop or museum or home

Usage examples of showcase.

Magnificent windows showcased Lake Shallen, which glittered in the moonlight.

It pointed down to the space between the counter and the unrobbed showcase of silver on the wall.

I have already mentioned, a package of sliced bacon, a box of soap chips, and a paper sack of spinach, among the green leaves of which glowed, when I emptied them out on the showcase, the hard crystal facets of unset diamonds.

New Conservatives to build cores like it in every English city, showcases for a top-led society, the acceptable face of capitalism.

Stumbling through the dark, Geiger reached a hinged counter that connected two showcases.

Chinese haikwan tael that had disappeared from the showcase in the museum, because that was silver and had a hole in it.

The fate of Citadel hung on him and the SS, like a medal, and this would showcase them as what Luis knew them to be: the finest fighting men and machines the world had ever witnessed.

The Olympus eden is a showcase microecology, a sample of what all Mars will be like eventually, and is not yet available for colonization.

The first two days of the show were hectic ones, getting the horses settled in, clipped, and groomed, with more exhibiters arriving all the time, florists delivering huge potted plants to various stables to aid in the transformation of common stalls into showcases, and car penters and electricians swarming all over the place like so many flies in a barn.

The long exhibition hall was lined with lavish showcase stalls the entire length of the building on both sides.

It also ensures that the sides of the building form a constantly updated museum of tags from every corner of the borough, a showcase for rival tribes in temporary collaboration.

I killed no vases, no beer glasses nor light bulbs, I opened up no showcase nor deprived any spectacles of their power of vision -- no, my vocal rancor was directed against all the balls, bells, light refracting silvery soap bubbles that graced the Ochristmastree: with a tinkle tinkle and a klingaling, the tree decorations were shattered into dust.

In addition, as a sideline so to speak, he attended to the buying and ordering, the accounts with the wholesale houses and the Board of Trade -- occupations which became more and more complicated as the war went on -- carried on, and not without shrewdness, the necessary correspondence with the fiscal authorities, decorated the showcase with considerable imagination and good taste, and conscientiously performed his so-called Party duties.

All of these items were proudly showcased in his room, giving a visitor the impression that he wanted to be an archaeologist or a professor someday.

Inmate art work from prison facilities throughout the state is showcased for several days each April at a government building.