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plural bioscopes
An early form of movie projector examples
(South Africa, India, Myanmar, Singapore, Indonesia, dated) A cinema or movie theatre. quotations examples
Like their Western brothers, groups of native youths [in Burma] from out-lying places set out cheerfully on Saturday nights to visit the nearest "Bioscope", as they call the cinema[.]
1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 175