picture palace

短语

n. 电影院

词形变化

picture palaces 复数 picture palaces

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An elaborately decorated motion picture theater, principally constructed from 1910 to 1950.

    英国 过时 历史

    1923, Ernest Bramah, The Eyes of Max Carrados […] by cajolery and innuendo she had persuaded him to go to the picture palace to be cheered up, and as it was now on the turn of eleven he might be expected back at any moment.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 4

cinema moviehouse movie theater movie theatre

上位词 3

house theater theatre

下位词 3

multiplex bioscope flea pit

词源

From the romantically decorated facades and interiors of the theaters.

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