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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. An entertainment (especially a theatrical performance) or a reception held in the daytime, usually in the afternoon. [The general dinner-hour of early times having been at the close of the forenoon, the French matinée, like the English morning, is often considered as extending to the common modern dinner-hour in the evening, especially in cities.]
  2. n. A woman's dress for home wear in the forenoon, or up to the time when she dresses as for dinner or for going out. Its form and material change according to fashion.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A showing of a movie or theatrical performance in the afternoon.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A reception, or a musical or dramatic entertainment, held in the daytime. See soirée.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a theatrical performance held during the daytime (especially in the afternoon)

Etymologies

  1. From French matinée (Wiktionary)

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  • Prolagus

    I am conscious of my voice as a tool
    It's more demure
    Than your friend the singing queen
    With her matinée good looks
    She talks like talking from a book
    I speak the language of my village, of my street.

    (A down and dusky blonde, by God Help the Girl) Jun 4, 2010

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