bioscope
/ˈbaɪəˌskoʊp/
noun
- A movie theater or cinema, especially in historical contexts.
- Grandpa recalled spending his Saturdays at the local bioscope.
- We went to the old bioscope to watch a silent film.
- The town's first bioscope opened in 1910 and showed newsreels.
- A motion-picture projector or a device for viewing moving pictures.
- The museum displayed a vintage bioscope from the 1920s.
- The inventor demonstrated his bioscope at the fair.
- Early bioscopes used hand-cranked mechanisms to show short films.
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