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picture house

British  

noun

  1. an old-fashioned name for cinema

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

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

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

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

“In every moving picture house in America little children would have the pleasure of seeing stories acted by the Popper Performing Penguins,” he said.

From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater

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