bioscope
Americannoun
noun
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a kind of early film projector
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a South African word for cinema
Etymology
Origin of bioscope
Example Sentences
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In becoming a movie house, the Olympic reverts to the building's previous life as Byfield Hall, a historic entertainment venue whose attractions included the bioscope, an early form of cinema.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2013
Or rather, back of the "bioscope," a word for the cinema in South Africa in the old days.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 11, 2013
It is an excellent way of listening to an opera or seeing pictures on a bioscope.
From The Crock of Gold by James Stephens
Yesterday this would have been to him nothing but a dead bioscope picture; now, though he still sat an onlooker in the pit, it was a living human drama at which he gazed.
From The Seventh Noon by Edmund Frederick
We had expected to see the whole surface of the Mediterranean almost as busy as State and Madison, or Broadway and Forty-second—craft of all descriptions criss-crossing the blue ripples, a continuous aquatic bioscope.
From In Pastures New by George Ade
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