Kinema

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Archaic form of cinema. alt-of, archaic

    ""Ready Rita," repeated Albert deliriously. "Oh, ain't it just like the pictures!" It was. Tuppence was a great frequenter of the kinema."

  2. 2
    A Nepali dish of fermented soybean, resembling natto. uncountable

Example

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""Ready Rita," repeated Albert deliriously. "Oh, ain't it just like the pictures!" It was. Tuppence was a great frequenter of the kinema."

Etymology

Borrowed from Nepali किनेमा (kinemā, literally “fermented flavour”), from Limbu [script needed] (ki, “fermented”) + [script needed] (nambaa, “flavor”).

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