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bioscope

[ UK /bˈa‍ɪəskˌə‍ʊp/ ]
NOUN
  1. a South African movie theater
  2. a kind of early movie projector

How To Use bioscope In A Sentence

  • They have renamed the theatre the Gem Bioscope, in fond memory of the days when the Gem was an active bioscope, showing movies like Samson & Delilah, or endless westerns.
  • In that case, we're left with little to say about Dante or, even more obviously, Dickens - both of whom made use of strongly sentiment-charged visual imaginations - and this long before the first bioscopes echoed our unified oohs and aahs.
  • There was a bioscope, theatre, ballroom dancing, music shows, beauty contests and other activities. The Star (South Africa)
  • ‘I've been living on the streets for a long, long time, just sleeping in old bioscopes,’ she says, wrapping her tattered jersey around her frail shoulders.
  • The problem did not arise with the kinetoscope only but had interested the preceding generations who amused themselves with the phenakistoscope and the stroboscopic disks or the magic cylinder of the zoötrope and bioscope. The Photoplay A Psychological Study
  • In the past, Afrikaner young people entertained themselves in folk dances, church-sponsored youth activities, and the bioscope (movies).
  • The obtained data are particularly convincing by virtue of the bioscope's simplicity in design.
  • Tibetans first called the cinema beskop, from "bioscope" one of the early terms for movies (as kinema, vitascope, etc.) and now apparently used only by South Africans, Nepalese and Tibetans. Phayul Latest News
  • His love of the bioscope reflects a nation obsessed with movies.
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