picture show
AmericanEtymology
Origin of picture show
First recorded in 1865–70, in sense “exhibition of pictures” and in 1910–15 for current senses
Example Sentences
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Don’t folks deserve to leave the picture show with some hope?
From New York Times • Apr. 30, 2020
But technicolor big screen picture show treatment just doesn’t jibe with the persona.
From The Guardian • Aug. 16, 2019
A twenty-eight-year-old white man, he had the stock handsomeness of an extra in a Western picture show: short brown hair, slate-blue eyes, square chin.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 1, 2017
Volleyball in a hijab: Does this picture show a culture clash?
From BBC • Aug. 18, 2016
“Come on, you didn’t think we’d drive all this way just to go to a silly picture show, did you?”
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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