His [James Rolfe's] reasoning dances around the simple fact that has set this innocuous-seeming movie apart from its fellow blockbusters this summer—that it’s a tentpole genre film starring women.
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Tentpole
//ˈtɛntˌpoʊl//
Synonyms for "tentpole"
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7 entriesTranslations
14 translations across 9 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- κάμαξ noun (pole used to hold up a tent)
Arabic
2 entries- بِوَان noun (pole used to hold up a tent)
- عَمُود البَيْت noun (pole used to hold up a tent)
Dutch
1 entries- tentstok noun (pole used to hold up a tent)
Finnish
1 entries- telttakeppi noun (pole used to hold up a tent)
French
1 entries- mât de tente noun (pole used to hold up a tent)
German
1 entries- Zeltstange noun (pole used to hold up a tent)
Indonesian
3 entries- batang tenda noun (pole used to hold up a tent)
- tiang kemah noun (pole used to hold up a tent)
- tongkat tenda noun (pole used to hold up a tent)
Russian
2 entries- сто́йка для пала́тки noun (pole used to hold up a tent)
- сто́йка для те́нта noun (pole used to hold up a tent)
Ukrainian
2 entries- опо́рна тичи́на те́нту noun (pole used to hold up a tent)
- сті́йка для наме́ту noun (pole used to hold up a tent)
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