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picture palaces

picture palaces is the plural of picture palace.

Meaning of picture palace

Noun

picture palace (plural picture palaces)

  1. (UK, dated, historical) An elaborately decorated motion picture theater, principally as constructed from 1910 to 1950.
    • After tea, the bright boys wash, clean their boots, and change into their “second-best” attire, and stroll forth, either to a picture palace or to the second house of the Balham Hippodrome; […]1918 [1915], Thomas Burke, Nights in London, New York: Henry Holt and Company, page 75
    Synonyms:
    movie palace

Questions about picture palaces

What is picture palaces the plural of?
Picture palaces is the plural of picture palace.

Words near picture palaces in the dictionary

  1. picture messages
  2. picture messaging
  3. picture molding
  4. picture moldings
  5. picture palace
  6. picture palaces
  7. picture paper
  8. picture papers
  9. picture perfect
  10. picture plane
  11. picture planes

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