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View synonyms for picture house

picture house

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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It was worse than waiting in line at the one moving picture house that their little town had boasted.

Why, I'd rather play the piano in a five-cent moving picture house than do what I'm doing now.

When the nearest moving picture house is five miles away it is easy to stay at home.

Four days a week this became a moving-picture house—just like the Bijou or the Orpheum back home.

Any picture house would rather be praised for bringing a good picture to town than condemned for showing a bad one.

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