picture shown.
/ˈpɪktʃə ʃəʊ/, U.S. /ˈpɪk(t)ʃər ˌʃoʊ/ 1. An exhibition of paintings, drawings, etc. Now rare.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > display of pictures > [noun] > exhibition
exhibition1761
picture show1858
one-man show1879
biennial1928
retrospective1929
biennale1968
1858 Times 8 Apr. 12/2 The miscellaneous character of our annual picture shows.
1859 T. Parker Let. 29 Oct. in J. Weiss Life & Corr. T. Parker (1863) II. 377 I take more interest in a cattle-show than in a picture-show.
1869 D. G. Rossetti Let. 24 Dec. (1965) II. 781 Nor indeed do I ever go to any picture shows whatever now.
1883 (title) The minstrels: a picture show for young people.
1948 E. Pound Pisan Cantos lxxx. 82 And he said to Yeats at a vorticist picture show: ‘You also of the brotherhood?’
2. (a) An exhibition or show of moving pictures using a cinematograph (now historical). (b) The showing of a film or other programme on a cinema screen (now somewhat archaic). Also figurative. Cf. cinema show n. at cinema n. Compounds 3.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > film show > [noun]
cinematograph1896
kinematograph1898
picture show1908
cinema1909
motion pictures1915
1908 Variety 25 Jan. 11/3 Although this film was shown at the Bijou Dream..it was also on exhibition at several ‘picture shows’ throughout the city.
1913 Motion Picture Story Mag. Feb. 59 ‘The gang's all here!’ cried one with glee,..‘A picture show we'll go to see.’
1919 S. Sassoon Picture Show 1 And this is all I know—That from the gloom I watch an endless picture-show, Where wild or listless faces flicker on their way.
1974 R. O'Brien Sci. Fiction/Double Feature in Rocky Horror Show (score) 27 I wanna go oh oh To the late night double feature picture show by R.K.O.
2008 P. S. Moore Now Playing Introd. 1 With the twenty picture shows that had opened since the first in 1906, that the number of movie theaters in the city would multiply fivefold again to nearly 100 by 1914 was still unimaginable to some.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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