It seems inappropriate for the English to describe an afternoon theatre performance as a matinee, as the word comes from the French "matin," meaning morning. Morning, however, 'is a purely comparative word. The church service of "Matins," now generally held at 11 a.m., was originally sung at midnight, being literally the "prayer of the very earliest morning. From the French the "matinee" or morning performance of the theatre was that held before "dinner time," and the term was.borrowed by the fashionable world to mean an afternoon show at an English theatre.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19168, 26 November 1927, Page 11
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