matinees in English

noun
1
a performance in a theater or a showing of a movie that takes place in the daytime.
She remembers as a child going to traditional Saturday matinees at her local cinema, and said: ‘It's something that has been missing.’

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1. 4 However, modernisation will help to expand the programme further, including film shows, shadow puppetry and matinees - presently impracticable.

2. 17 However, modernisation will help to expand the programme further, including film shows, shadow puppetry and matinees - presently impracticable.

3. Then, sleep in, go to a museum or the movies (matinees are cheaper), take a serendipitous walk, venture off into the woods on snowshoes — do something you don't normally do on a weekend or holiday.

4. On Saturday night and Sunday matinees (Saturday afternoon was still the Jewish Sabbath) Second Avenue was thronged with people coming to the theaters and dining out in the meat restaurants (featuring “Rumanian Broilings”) or the dairy restaurants (Second Avenue then was called “the great bite way”) and stopping off afterwards at the