movie housen.
/ˈmuːvɪ ˌhaʊs/, U.S. /ˈmuvi ˌ(h)aʊs/ Originally U.S.
A cinema.
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bioscope1902
picture house1906
picture theatre1906
kinema1908
Picturedrome1908
picture palace1908
cinema1911
movie1911
movie house1912
movie palace1913
movie theatre1913
theatre1923
Odeon1930
1912 Altoona (Pa.) Mirror 14 Oct. 8/1 The new movie house is attracting crowds of people to see the various pictures.
1913 Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, Wisconsin) 23 Jan. 6/5 It sure must be a hard job to attract persons and capital to a city that has nothing to offer except cheap ‘vaudeville’ and ‘movie’ houses.
1932 Times Lit. Suppl. 22 Dec. 976/1 Sam, ticket-chopper in a movie-house.
1974 Times 19 Jan. 10/1 Local movie houses offering major releases.
1992 Film Comment Nov.–Dec. 26/1 There was a moviehouse that showed almost exclusively Warner Bros. films.
2008 N. O. Keim & D. Marc Our Movie Houses iii. 55 The Arcadia was the proverbial hole-in-the-wall movie house.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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