Both Uses of
matinée
in
A Prayer for Owen Meany
- We were used to the Saturday matinees at the decrepit Gravesend movie house, inexplicably called The Idaho—after the faraway western state or the potato of that name, we never knew.†
p. 263.6 *matinees = daytime performances
- 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.†
p. 273.6matinee = daytime performance
Definition:
a daytime performance (of something like a movie or play)