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Afternoon performance
Answer for the clue "Afternoon performance ", 7 letters:
matinee
Alternative clues for the word matinee
Word definitions for matinee in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"afternoon performance," 1848, from French matinée (musicale) , from matinée "morning" (with a sense here of "daytime"), from matin "morning," from Old French matines (see matins ). Originally as a French word in English; it lost its foreignness by late ...
Usage examples of matinee.
But a movie, theater, the real thing, with a kiddie matinee on Saturday with twelve cartoons and a Western and a chapter, and beautiful dinnerware given away to the ladies on Wednesday evening, and always a double feature plus cartoon plus newsreel plus coming attractions, changed twice a week on Wednesday and Sunday.
He belonged to the old school of fighters who looked the part, and in these days of pugilists who resemble matinee idols he had the appearance of an anachronism.
Betteredge said, when the anthropometrist had moved upstairs, "if you feel I was responsible, sir… For losing her, I mean—" "I believe, Betteredge, that I dispatched you earlier to a matinee, at the Garrick, to report on the acrobatic ladies of Manhattan, did I not?
Betteredge said, when the anthropometrist had moved upstairs, "if you feel I was responsible, sir For losing her, I mean" "I believe, Betteredge, that I dispatched you earlier to a matinee, at the Garrick, to report on the acrobatic ladies of Manhattan, did I not?
Even if he had paid Rudy back, the two of them had been friends since grade school, and it seemed (looking back) that Larry had always been a dime short for the Saturday matinee because he'd bought some licorice whips or a couple of candy bars on the way over to Rudy's, or borrowing a nickel to round out his school lunch money or getting seven cents to make up carfare.
A Greencoat Show matinee as well as an extra performance tonight, and we want two major feature films showing at the cinemas.
I'm sorry I have to be a stranger with hay fever and on my way to lunch and a matinee.
It was all girlish gewgaws: pandas and arcade Kewpie dolls, pinups of matinee idols and college pennants on the walls.
Following the cartoon and news matinée the next Saturday, Ted met Gavin in the usual place, beside the ostrich which Ted tried not to notice.
When Ted arrived for the matinée, Gavin was already waiting near the cinema.
That man suffering from neurofibromatosis, now as handsome as a matinee idol.
I went to a matinee screening in New Jersey with my then best friend, the late Brian Daley, who had just sold his first science-fiction novel and would go on to write a trilogy of Han Solo novels and radio dramatizations of the classic movies.
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.