All 4 Uses
matinée
in
The Goldfinch
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- Maybe they were part of some big old complicated New York family —music people, academics, one of those large, artsy West Side families that you saw up around Columbia or at Lincoln Center matinees.†
p. 29.5matinees = daytime performances
- Basically we were content enough doing our own laundry down in the basement, going to matinees instead of full-price movies, eating day-old baked goods and cheap Chinese carry-out (noodles, egg foo yung) and counting out nickels and dimes for bus fare.†
p. 57.9
- Though there were several movies we both would have liked, I'd chosen a matinee at the Boris Karloff film festival: The Body Snatcher.†
p. 192.2 *matinee = daytime performance
- Carlos was the oldest and most reserved of the doormen, like an aging Mexican matinee idol with his pencil moustache and greying temples, his black shoes polished to a high gloss and his white gloves whiter than everyone else's.†
p. 213.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(matinée) a daytime performance (of something like a movie or play)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)