art house en · NOUN
Meanings
-
A cinema that shows art films and foreign films which are not widely distributed.
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.
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:
-
(dated) A building or gallery in which works of art are collected, displayed, and offered for sale.
Hitler had "collected" most of the paintings from a Jewish-owned art house—Goudstikker of Amsterdam.
1946 December 16, “Dutch Bouquet”, in Time:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| art houses | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Translations (3)
pl kino studyjne (a cinema that shows art films and foreign films which are not widely distributed) · pl galeria sztuki (a building or gallery in which works of art are collected, displayed, and offered for sale) · fr salle d'art et d'essai (a cinema that shows art films and foreign films which are not widely distributed)