picture palace
English edit
Etymology edit
From the romantically decorated facades and interiors of the theaters.
Noun edit
picture palace (plural picture palaces)
- (UK, dated, historical) An elaborately decorated motion picture theater, principally constructed from 1910 to 1950.
- 1918 [1915], Thomas Burke, Nights in London[1], New York: Henry Holt and Company, page 75:
- 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; […]
Synonyms edit
- (decorated movie theater): movie palace (US)
Further reading edit
- Movie palace on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Category:Cinemas on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons