All 4 Uses
matinée
in
The Catcher in the Rye
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- Which was really a hot one, because my grandmother hardly ever even goes out of the house, except maybe to go to a goddam matinee or something.†
p. 76.9matinee = daytime performance
- It's Sunday, but there's always one or two matinees going on Sunday.†
p. 138.6matinees = daytime performances
- For a second, I was tempted to tell her to forget about the matinee.†
p. 138.8matinee = daytime performance
- But the thing was, 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.†
p. 147.9 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(matinée) a daytime performance (of something like a movie or play)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)