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CINEMATHEQUE

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cin⋅e⋅ma⋅theque

  [sin-uh-muh-tek]
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–noun
a motion-picture theater, often part of a university or private archive, showing experimental or historically important films.
Also, cin⋅é⋅ma⋅thèque  [Fr. see-ney-ma-tek] .

Origin:
1965–70; < F cinémathèque film archive, equiv. to cinéma- prefixal use of cinéma cinema + -thèque, as in bibliothèque library, discothèque collection of phonograph records; see theca
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cin·e·ma·theque   (sĭn'ə-mə-těk')   
n.  A small movie theater showing classic or avant-garde films.

[French cinémathèque, blend of cinéma, cinema; see cinema, and (biblio)thèque, library (from Latin bibliotheca; see bibliotheca).]
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