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bioscope

[ bahy-uh-skohp ]

noun

  1. an early form of motion-picture projector, used about 1900.


bioscope

/ ˈ²ú²¹ÉªÉ™ËŒ²õ°ìəʊ±è /

noun

  1. a kind of early film projector
  2. a South African word for cinema
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of bioscope1

First recorded in 1895–1900; bio- + -scope
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In becoming a movie house, the Olympic reverts to the building's previous life as Byfield Hall, a historic entertainment venue whose attractions included the bioscope, an early form of cinema.

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They couldn't, of course, visit "bioscopes" for whites.

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We had expected to see the whole surface of the Mediterranean almost as busy as State and Madison, or Broadway and Forty-second—craft of all descriptions criss-crossing the blue ripples, a continuous aquatic bioscope.

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Then of course there are the usual popular amusements—the inevitable bioscope, the gramophone, and all sorts of shows.

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He might have been operating that bioscope the night before, be due back the next, and just having a look at things in France on his night off.

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