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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

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

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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