subs. (colloquial).—Attracting attention as a LION (q.v.); also, sight-seeing.
1839. MARTINEAU, ‘Literary LIONISM,’ in London and Westminster Review, April.
1851. CARLYLE, John Sterling, Pt. III. ch. i. Its Puseyisms, Liberalisms, literary LIONISMS, or what else the mad hour might be producing.
