celluloid

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Here he has woven it out of strips of old celluloid, a sort of carnival tent hoisted up in a void: a haunted funhouse for resurrected swordswomen, where they can eternally enact the same unfinished and unfinishable revenge drama.

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  1. noun A colorless flammable material made from nitrocellulose and camphor and used to make photographic film.
  2. noun Motion-picture film: "a strange, anachronistic sight: theater pieces transferred to celluloid” (David Ansen).
  3. noun The cinema; motion pictures: "There are no heroes but in celluloid” (Charles Langbridge Morgan).
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  • Searching for a kind of beauty that existed only in celluloid, a product of light and shadows and nothing more. —  F ;SF; - vol 088 issue 06 - June 1995
  • The acetone converts the outer layer of the GC into a form of celluloid, which is impervious to moisture. —  18-ImprovisedExplosives
  • In my dream she smelled of gin and old celluloid, although I do not remember the last dream I had where anyone smelled of anything. —  Smoke and Mirrors, by Neil Gaiman.
  • In an ongoing quest to uncover the most blatant blunders ever committed to celluloid, anyone online is encouraged to submit a newfound error, and the most frequent contributors earn themselves a spot in the Member Top 20. —  The House Next Door
  • A few Indian filmmakers have trekked into the White Desert and Sinai to capture Egypt on celluloid, and the lyrics of popular singer Hisham Abbas's hit song 'Nari Nari' depict an Indian lass whose beauty and grace leaves him spellbound.
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  1. Originally a trademark.

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  1. from cellul(ose) + -oid.
  2. Latin cellula, a cell, + Greek εἴδος, form.
 

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/ˈsɛljulɔɪd/
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