3 uses
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Definition
a daytime performance (of something like a movie or play)
- Mama had dressed and gone off with Aunt Sissy to see a matinee from a ten-cent gallery seat.Chapter 1 (81% in)
- She waited at the stage door after the Saturday matinee and followed him to the shabby brownstone house where he lived untheatrically in a modest furnished room.Chapter 28 (54% in)
- A movie house was letting the graduates attend the Saturday matinee two-for-a-nickel providing they brought their diplomas along as proof.Chapter 42 (97% in)
There are no more uses of "matinée" in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
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