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Cinema employee
Answer for the clue "Cinema employee ", 9 letters:
usherette
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a female usher
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. a female usher
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ An usherette appeared, listened to more tantrums, tried unsuccessfully to reason with him and then disappeared. ▪ Chambermaids, cinema usherettes and bank tellers were all in on the act. ▪ It was hilarious and much appreciated ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Usherette refers to a character or character in disguise from Richard O'Brien 's musical The Rocky Horror Show . She opens the production singing " Science Fiction/Double Feature ", backed up by a phantom chorus and then reappears at the end to sing ...
Usage examples of usherette.
He doubled swiftly and scooped up a final gold button the usherette had missed.
The usherette led him to a cubicle at the far end, slightly larger than most, with a cutoff swing-door beneath which he could see the brightly polished brown shoes of the occupant, and the base of the chair on which he sat.
Drowsy, Procyon saw the usherette lean over him: and snap a circlet on his upper arm to slow the blood flow.
His drugged eyes dimly saw the usherette, back in her blue dress, sitting on a white stool by his couch.
He saw, something he had, overlooked then, the sinister line of the black wall encircling the city, and for an instant he thought he saw the puckered face of the usherette, also gilded, superimposed on the golden buildings, and it seemed to him that the imprisoning wall was a wall around her and her only.
Bruno Kretschmar becomes obsessed with cinema usherette Magda Peters, she turns her natural instincts as a courtesan to good effect and forces him to leave his wife and daughter.
The arrival was a uniformed usherette, who had stolen backstage when the house lights had given way to footlights.
Laying a bundle of programs upon the dressing table, the usherette made a quick probe of the pleated dress.
In darkness, The Shadow followed the usherette through the connecting door to the theater proper, and along a dim side aisle.
Most of them were watching the stage when the usherette guided them to their seats, for Wynne Marriot had begun her song-and-dance number in the cafe scene.
He saw the stub when the man drew it from the ticket envelope, because the usherette turned her flashlight on the bit of pasteboard.
The number of the seat was L8, and The Shadow heard the usherette mention that it was on another aisle.
The man kept his ticket stub, but he passed the usherette the envelope that had contained it.
One usherette was missing, the very one who had made the trips backstage.
The usherette stands defiantly at the door, holding it open for the two of them to leave.