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cinémathèque

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cin⋅e⋅ma⋅theque

[sin-uh-muh-tek]
–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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