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picturedrome|ˈpɪktjʊədrəʊm, -tʃə-|
[f. picture n. 2 i + -drome, after hippodrome n. 3.]
A building intended for picture shows; a cinema.
1914Durham Advertiser 19 June 8 Arrangements are being made..for the 'Varsity students' ‘rag’..to be shown at the Assembly Rooms Picturedrome. 1918A. Quiller-Couch Foe Farrell 116, I dragged him and Petunia back into the shadow under the side-wall of the Picturedrome. 1927Punch 27 July 97/3 Give us more dance saloons, More epileptic tunes, More syncopating coons, More Picture-dromes. 1933P. MacDonald Mystery of Dead Police i. 2 The colossal Pantheon Picturedrome—all Ionic pillars and organ solo. 1945Gen 5 May 24/2 A cinema owner can extol the modernity of his ‘Picturedrome’. |