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a daytime performance (of something like a movie or play)- We can still make the half-price matinée.
matinée = daytime performance
- On Saturday, we perform both an evening performance and a matinée.
- I'd made that date to go to a matinee with old Sally Hayes, and I needed to keep some dough for the tickets and stuff.J.D. Salinger -- The Catcher in the Rye
- She did not need cake or a matinee movie to have the fine time.Kaye Gibbons -- Ellen Foster
- Wagner Matinee [story title]Willa Cather -- A Wagner Matinee
- The matinee audience was made up chiefly of women.Willa Cather -- A Wagner Matinee
- On Saturday afternoons, he took her on outings—to matinees, to free public rehearsals of the symphony, for strolls through the arboretum.Amy Tan -- The Bonesetter's Daughter
- We return you now to our studios and "Matinee Musicale."Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee -- Inherit the Wind
- There's a matinee at three o'clock that will leave plenty of time to return to our rooms and dress to go out.Christina Baker Kline -- Orphan Train
- It's a matinee: I can get there, see the show, then take the bus back in time for my evening shift at the Swiss Chalet.Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
- "You could go to a matinee," said Georgina, "and eat popcorn."Susanna Kaysen -- Girl Interrupted
- "I'm taking Kel and Caulder to a matinee," he says.Colleen Hoover -- Slammed
- I'm gonna look like a matinee idol, Bubba, when you're walking the quad with your M-1 rifle slung over your shoulder.Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
- He was a great matinee idol then, you know.Eugene O'Neill -- Long Day's Journey into Night
- My wife and I stopped going to parks and matinees.Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe II
- They watched matinee crowds enter theaters and her mother made comments on the ladies' hats.Don DeLillo -- Underworld
- The curtain having fallen for the night, the evening over, and the first act set for tomorrow's matinee.Daphne du Maurier -- Rebecca
- David Herold is a former pharmacy clerk who was born and raised in Washington, D.C. Like Booth, he possesses matinee-idol good looks.Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Lincoln
- Our first circus, our first matinee, our first dead body—we arrived at these milestones together.Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
- Maybe we can go catch a matinee.Sharon M. Draper -- Out of My Mind
matinée = daytime performance
matinee = daytime performance
matinee = daytime performance
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