Lexic.us

Definition of Picture palace

1. Noun. A theater where films are shown.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Picture Palace

Literary usage of Picture palace

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Sketches in Portugal, During the Civil War of 1834 by James Edward Alexander (1835)
"CHAPTER X. Leave Lisbon to visit Cintra and Mafra—A Razor-back— A beautiful Picture—Palace of ... Picture—Palace ..."

2. Italy in the Nineteenth Century by James Whiteside (1860)
"Piazza della Trinita de' Monti, and the Landscape Painters of Italy. — A Word on the Sculptors. The Church, and Daniele da Volterra's Picture. Palace of the ..."

3. Nights in London by Thomas Burke (1918)
"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 ..."

4. The Cinema; Its Present Position and Future Possibilities by National Council of Public Morals, Cinema Commission of Inquiry (1917)
"To my mind the picture palace is, and can be made increasingly so, a wonderful counter-attraction to the public-house. It is much better that the parents ..."

5. The Equipment of the Workers: An Enquiry (1919)
"Fond of picture palace.— Reads only daily papers. 28. ... Used to go to picture palace a lot, but doesn't now, because it affects his eyes. ..."

6. Moving Pictures: How They are Made and Worked by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot (1914)
"Although the picture palace, with its attractive facade and brilliantly illuminated ... The picture palace had its birth in France, and the Parisian public ..."

7. Who's who on the Screen by Charles Donald Fox, Milton L. Silver (1920)
"... largely responsible for the modern motion picture palace in every part of the globe and its universal method of operation than any other living man. ..."

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