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English
Noun
art house (plural art houses)
- A cinema that shows art films and foreign films which are not widely distributed.
1953, D. W. Smythe et al., “Portrait of an Art-Theater Audience,”, in The Quarterly of Film Radio and Television, volume 8, number 1, page 28:Practically nothing has yet been reported in detail about audiences who attend the art house—a relatively new and growing institution on the American cinematic scene.
- (dated) A building or gallery in which works of art are collected, displayed, and offered for sale.
1946 December 16, “Dutch Bouquet”, in Time:Hitler had "collected" most of the paintings from a Jewish-owned art house—Goudstikker of Amsterdam.
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Translations
a cinema that shows art films and foreign films which are not widely distributed
a building or gallery in which works of art are collected, displayed, and offered for sale
References
- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
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