art house

See also: arthouse and art-house

English

Noun

art house (plural art houses)

1. A cinema that shows art films and foreign films which are not widely distributed.
   • 1953, D. W. Smythe et al., “Portrait of an Art-Theater Audience,”, in The Quarterly of Film Radio and Television, volume 8, number 1, page 28:

     Practically nothing has yet been reported in detail about audiences who attend the art house—a relatively new and growing institution on the American cinematic scene.

2. (dated) A building or gallery in which works of art are collected, displayed, and offered for sale.
   • 1946 December 16, “Dutch Bouquet”, in Time:

     Hitler had "collected" most of the paintings from a Jewish-owned art house—Goudstikker of Amsterdam.

Derived terms

• art-house (adjective)

Translations

a cinema that shows art films and foreign films which are not widely distributed

• French: salle d’art et d’essai

a building or gallery in which works of art are collected, displayed, and offered for sale

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.

Anagrams

• house rat, outhears, share-out, rat house, arouseth, rathouse, share out, shareout