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  • The matinee audience was made up chiefly of women.  (source)
  • I felt like I'd been traveling for weeks, like I'd been dodging lions and tigers on a safari through the jungle, trying to get to the Lost Diamond City buried in the Congo, which happened to be the theme of the last matinee I'd seen in Sylvan before leaving.†  (source)
  • He was seventeen or eighteen and, I noticed dejectedly, as handsome as a matinee idol.†  (source)
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  • Maybe we can go catch a matinee.†  (source)
    matinee = daytime performance
  • Kids stayed away from Finsterwald's the way old people stay away from Saturday afternoon matinees at a two-dollar movie.†  (source)
    matinees = daytime performances
  • The word /matinée/ offers a convenient example.†  (source)
    matinée = daytime performance
  • Though there were several movies we both would have liked, I'd chosen a matinee at the Boris Karloff film festival: The Body Snatcher.†  (source)
  • On Saturday afternoons, he took her on outings—to matinees, to free public rehearsals of the symphony, for strolls through the arboretum.†  (source)
    matinees = daytime performances
  • Owing to a brick received in the latter half of the matinée.†  (source)
    matinée = daytime performance
  • We went to The Idaho for the usual fare at the Saturday matinee—a double feature: Treasure of the Golden Condor, wherein Cornel Wilde is a dashing eighteenth-century Frenchman seeking hidden Mayan riches in Guatemala; and Drum Beat, wherein Alan Ladd is a cowboy and Audrey Dalton is an Indian.†  (source)
  • My wife and I stopped going to parks and matinees.†  (source)
    matinees = daytime performances
  • /Cañon/ was changed to /canyon/ years ago, and the cases of /exposé/, /divorcée/, /schmierkäse/, /employé/ and /matinée/ are familiar.†  (source)
    matinée = daytime performance
  • They had in fact seen a matinee pantomime at the London Pavilion during which Lola had spilled a strawberry drink down her frock, and Liberty's was right across the street.†  (source)
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