Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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n. 1 A cinema that shows art films and foreign films which are not widely distributed. 2 (context dated English) A building or gallery in which works of art are collected, displayed, and offered for sale.
Usage examples of "art house".
There's a sprinkler twirling on the lawn, but the grass is still showing the effects of the hot, dry weather in a way the other lawns on the street (including the lawn of the vacant Hobart house, actually) are not.
Now, as the Hobart house burned like merry hell down the street and the two bizarre vans approached, all he cared about was holding on to that life.
It disappeared into the rain and the billowing smoke from the empty Hobart house, where the roof was now sharing its gift of fire with the walls.
It mails three shotgun rounds special express into the burning Hobart house.
A buzzard it might be a buzzard, although it looks like nothing she's ever seen in a book or a movie has come cruising out of the billowing smoke from the Hobart house and landed in the street next to Mary Jackson.
There was a police car parked in front of the Hobart house, where there was broken glass everywhere, in the driveway & on the lawn, twinkling in the sun.
Where the Hobart house had been the Owl County General Store now stood, and although Tak could still smell smoke, the store wasn't showing so much as a single charred board.