picture house
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Surely the Ritz Cinema is the theater Herriot describes as he begins his courtship of Helen Alderson; a blue circle marker proudly declares its date of establishment as a picture house, 1912.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026
He said the charity was working with Jockey Club Estates to develop plans to turn the old horseracing museum into a three-screen boutique picture house.
From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2023
A 100-seater cinema in the back of a lorry has opened in a town that has not had a picture house for decades.
From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2023
The last ticket stub at London's legendary picture house was torn 18 years ago, but like the zombies that often haunted its screen, its influence on movie culture refuses to die.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 31, 2011
I told Wyatt Gosnell that I wasn’t gonna set a toe in his motion picture house until he could start showin’ some family entertainment.”
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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