What is "prospectuses"

Usage examples of "prospectuses".

He sent round prospectuses to his friends whenever he took a new trade, and ordered a new brass plate for the door, and talked pompously about making his fortune still.

She wrote out his numerous memorials, letters, prospectuses, and projects.

As for Jos, who was by this time promoted to a seat at the Revenue Board at Calcutta, he was wild with rage when the post brought him out a bundle of these Bacchanalian prospectuses, with a private note from his father, telling Jos that his senior counted upon him in this enterprise, and had consigned a quantity of select wines to him, as per invoice, drawing bills upon him for the amount of the same.

Anyway, they didn’t get many letters… Mostly prospectuses and magazines he subscribed to.