From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishpublic appearancepublic appearanceVISITa visit by a famous person in order to make a speech, advertise something etc She is paid £10,000 for the briefest of public appearances. → public
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public appearance• Among those attending the cremation ceremony in Vientiane on Jan. 28 were President Souphanouvong, making a rare public appearance.• Aside from meetings with Clinton and a senior State Department official, Fujimori spent most of his day here in public appearances.• It was the first public appearance for Caroline, who has been learning to belly dance for about eight months.• His visit to a literary dinner in Oxford was the only public appearance in this country.• Her most public appearance since the November elections came at a United Nations conference on social issues last month.• In recent public appearances, the speaker looks decidedly off his feed.• When they made public appearances together, they were singled out as the perfect couple.• Baldwin's next major public appearance was his Budget speech in April. 