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n. - A kind of early movie projector; A South African movie theater.

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Usage examples (34)
  • "So this is the kind of bioscope the master wanted me to see!"
  • “So this is the kind of bioscope the master wanted me to see!”
  • Tibetans first called the cinema beskop, from "bioscope" one of the early terms for movies (as kinema, vitascope, etc.) and now apparently used only by South Africans,...
  • We are compelled to do pick and shovel work, are not allowed newspapers, radios, bioscope; contact visits and even groceries are given grudgingly.
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