1. A show contained or carried about in a box; a peep-show.
2. A show or spectacle of any kind.
3. Spectacular display.
According to the OED the word dates from 1681 and “is formed in imitation of the foreign way of pronouncing rare show” (Johnson). It has also been suggested that raree may represent rarity but Johnson’s statement is probably the correct one given that the early exhibitors of peep-shows appear to have been usually Savoyards, from whom the form was no doubt adopted. Recall that the diarist Samuel Pepys observed a marionette show featuring an early version of Punch & Judy (not quite a peep show but not unlikely they derive from the same tradition?) in London’s Covent Garden in May 1662. This was performed by an Italian puppet showman, Pietro Gimonde (aka. Signor Bologna).
To remove the bark, rind, or husk from; to strip of its bark. Hence, to divest of what conceals, to expose.
To ‘flay’ or to peel.
Decorticate (adjective).
Destitute of a cortex or cortical layer (applied specifically to some lichens).
When I was a child I remember my mother always used to describe a peculiarly tasteless wine (usually her own home-made wine) as being “like decorticated cardboard”. Somehow one didn’t have to be told exactly what the word meant!
1. An imaginary flower reputed never to fade; a fadeless flower (as a poetic conception). 2. A genus of ornamental plants (Amarantus, family Amarantaceæ) with coloured foliage, of which the Prince’s Feather and Love-lies-bleeding are species. 3. A purple colour, being that of the foliage of Amarantus. 4. A yellow amaranth: A composite plant (Helichrysum Stœchas).
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3. Spectacular display. 
Frippet. 
English possesses about 750,000 words of which some 100,000 are obsolete.
1. An imaginary flower reputed never to fade; a fadeless flower (as a poetic conception).