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Picture palace

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An elaborately decorated motion picture theater, principally constructed from 1910 to 1950. UK, dated, historical

    "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; […]"

  2. 2
    a theater where films are shown wordnet

Etymology

From the romantically decorated facades and interiors of the theaters.

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