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单词 picture house
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picture housen.

Brit. /ˈpɪktʃə haʊs/, U.S. /ˈpɪk(t)ʃər ˌhaʊs/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: picture n., house n.1
Etymology: < picture n. + house n.1
1. A picture gallery; (later also) a shop or emporium selling paintings. Obsolete.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shops selling other specific goods
jeweller's shop1632
ironmongery1648
ironmonger1673
jeweller1675
news shop1688
print shop1689
Indian house1692
coal shed1718
pamphlet shop1721
lormery1725
drugstore1771
hardware store1777
junk store1777
chandler-shop1782
junk shop1790
music store1794
pot shop1794
finding store1822
marine store1837
picture house1838
paint shop1847
news agency1852
chemist1856
Army and Navy1878
cyclery1886
jumble-shop1893
pig shop1896
Manchester department1905
lot1909
craft shop1911
garden centre1912
pet shop1927
sex shop1949
video store1949
quincaillerie1951
home centre1955
Army-Navy1965
cookshop1967
sound shop1972
bucket-shop1973
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > display of pictures > [noun] > gallery
gallerya1616
cabinet1675
picture gallery1721
portrait gallery1780
picture house1838
art gallery1841
art museum1845
rogues' gallery1857
art house1882
1838 Spectator 28 Apr. 399/1 This constant habit of superficially glancing at pictures, is..both a proof and a cause of the insufficient knowledge of art among us: nine-tenths of the curious who flock to exhibitions and picture-houses, do no more than ‘wonder with a foolish face of praise’.
1841 W. M. Leake Topogr. Athens (ed. 2) I. viii. 323 Pausanias observes that on the right of the Propylæa stood the temple of Victory without Wings..and on the left..a building which contained paintings... Chandler..supposed the northern wing of the Propylæa to have been the temple of Victory, and the southern the picture-house.
1871 Cambridge (Ohio) Jeffersonian 19 Oct. 1/3 J. Goodspeed's Empire Book, Map and Picture House, Chicago or St. Louis.
1901 Bookseller July 289/2 Books and pictures naturally go together... The presence of several representatives of picture houses at the Palmer House with the book salesmen during the month shows [etc.].
2. A house suitable for a picture, a picturesque house. Obsolete.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > other types of house
houseOE
showernc1175
house of fencec1425
abbey1665
park1750
trust house1751
subhouse1771
hurley-house1814
bure1843
ideal home1854
tholtan1856
picture house1858
village-house1862
tumble-down1866
tree-house1867
mazet1873
riad1881
slaughterhouse1899
whare puni1911
mas1912
social housing1928
quadruplex1939
share house1945
starter home1948
show house1957
painted lady1978
self-build1978
starter1979
Earthship1985
Queenslander1985
des res1986
common house1989
1858 Mag. Hort., Bot., & Rural Affairs June 287 Twenty-four designs for houses..all in a simple, plain, and neat style,..among whom one of the ‘picture’ houses some books represent, would be as much out of place as a rustic cottage in State Street.
1896 ‘Iota’ Quaker Grandmother 72 What a dear old picture house!
1904 Good Housek. Oct. 395/2 In the picture house the greatest sacrifice of comfort concerns itself with the windows... Small windows are undoubtedly more picturesque than large ones.
3. Originally U.S.; in later use chiefly British and Irish English. A cinema, a movie theatre; = cinema n. 3. Now historical.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > film show > a cinema > [noun]
bioscope1902
picture house1906
picture theatre1906
kinema1908
Picturedrome1908
picture palace1908
cinema1911
movie1911
movie house1912
movie palace1913
movie theatre1913
theatre1923
Odeon1930
1906 Morning Star (Rockford, Illinois) 28 Nov. 4/3 He objected to the use of a public building for an advertising scheme for a picture house.
1908 Variety 23 May 12 Hundreds seated in a picture house who..watch with cooling brows the reels run off.
1913 Punch 31 Dec. 543/3 Scene outside an Islington Picture-house.
1939 ‘G. Orwell’ Coming up for Air iv. vi. 275 Flats, pubs, fried-fish shops, picture-houses, on and on for twenty miles.
1975 Country Life 6 Feb. 326/1 In 1928, the publisher..laid out £4,000 promoting a song..sending lantern slides..to every picture house in the country.
1997 E. Midland Historian 7 34/2 The picture house offered employment as well as entertainment: I was an usherette.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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