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lobby card

lobby card noun: a small poster (often one of a small set) for a film or play, displayed in the front of house of a cinema or theatre.

lobby card: a small poster (often one of a small set) for a film or play, displayed in the front of house of a...
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Noun

lobby card (plural lobby cards)

  1. A small poster (often one of a small set) for a film or play, displayed in the front of house of a cinema or theatre.
    • Some lobby card sets contain as many as 16 or more different cards. One of the purposes of lobby cards was to give a pictorial synopsis of the subject movie.1997, Edwin E. Poole, Susan T. Poole, Collecting Movie Posters, McFarland, published 2013, →ISBN

Forms of lobby card

plurallobby cards

Questions about lobby card

What does lobby card mean?
Lobby card means a small poster (often one of a small set) for a film or play, displayed in the front of house of a cinema or theatre.
What part of speech is lobby card?
Lobby card is a noun.
What is the plural of lobby card?
The plural of lobby card is lobby cards.

Words near lobby card in the dictionary

  1. lobbies out
  2. lobbies up
  3. lobbing
  4. Lobbs
  5. lobby
  6. lobby card
  7. lobby cards
  8. lobby correspondent
  9. lobby correspondents
  10. lobby fodder
  11. lobby group

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