oater
(informal, US, entertainment) A movie or television show about cowboy or frontier life; a western movie.
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(informal, US, entertainment) A movie or television show about cowboy or frontier life; a western movie.
In recent years the western or horse opera, known in the trade as the "oater," has come to be recognized as an art form just as formal as the ballet or the symphony. To prove his contention that all this is so, Life Photographer John Flo…
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