picture house
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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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