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picture palace

noun

Etymology

From the romantically decorated facades and interiors of the theaters.

Definitions

  1. An elaborately decorated motion picture theater, principally constructed from 1910 to…

    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; […]
    • […] by cajolery and innuendo she had persuaded him to go to the picture palace to be cheered up, and as it was now on the turn of eleven he might be expected back at any moment.

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