(UK, dated, historical) An elaborately decorated motion picture theater, principally constructed from 1910 to 1950.
(UK, dated, historical) An elaborately decorated motion picture theater, principally constructed from 1910 to 1950.
After tea, the bright boys wash, clean their boots, and change into their “second-best” attire, and stroll forth, either to a picture palace or to the second house of the Balham Hippodrome;
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(US, historical) An elaborately decorated motion picture theater, principally constructed from 1910 to 1950.
(AU, historical) A temperance hotel, often also having leisure facilities for those not staying as guests.
An American term for a cinema or movie theater, particularly common in earlier 20th-century usage. Still understood but slightly dated in contemporary speech, where 'movie theater' or simply 'the movies' dominates. Has a nostalgic, Main Street America quality when used today.
(US) A building where movies are shown to an audience; a cinema.
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(US) A cinema having multiple theatres (showing rooms).