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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

I remember my late father taking myself and a good friend to Birmingham picture house to see the film, my first visit to a picture house.

From BBC Dec. 27, 2012

Jim Dummett, of the Lost Picture Show, a replica of a classical picture house enclosed in a festival-ready tent, agrees.

From The Guardian Aug. 22, 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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