All 3 Uses of
matinée
in
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- Mama had dressed and gone off with Aunt Sissy to see a matinee from a ten-cent gallery seat.†
Chpt 1 *matinee = daytime performance
- 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.†
Chpt 28
- A movie house was letting the graduates attend the Saturday matinee two-for-a-nickel providing they brought their diplomas along as proof.†
Chpt 42
Definition:
a daytime performance (of something like a movie or play)