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ˈpleasure-ground
A ground or piece of land laid out and ornamented for purposes of pleasure or amusement, or naturally adapted to such use.
1768Holdsworth On Virgil 200 The Romans seem..to have used the word Tempe, as the Greeks did Παράδεισοι..for any very pleasing place; or pleasure-grounds, as our gardeners of late call them. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xii. III. 242 A beautiful pleasure-ground, situated on a woody promontory which overlooks Lough Erne. 1886W. J. Tucker E. Europe 101 Isn't it grand—a park of this size? It's fully fifty acres, and all pleasure-ground, too! |