单词 | picture house |
释义 | picture housen.ΘΚΠ 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.]. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1838 |
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