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Definition
a daytime performance (of something like a movie or play)
- Owing to a brick received in the latter half of the matinée.Episode 7 — Aeolus (53% in)
- She could see at once by his dark eyes and his pale intellectual face that he was a foreigner, the image of the photo she had of Martin Harvey, the matinee idol, only for the moustache which she preferred because she wasn't stagestruck like Winny Rippingham that wanted they two to always dress the same on account of a play but she could not see whether he had an aquiline nose or a slightly retroussé from where he was sitting.Episode 13 — Nausicca (31% in)
There are no more uses of "matinée" in Ulysses by James Joyce.
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