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ˈpleasure-house
[f. pleasure n. + house: cf. Ger. lusthaus.]
A house used for purposes of pleasure or recreation; a summer-house.
1590H. Wotton Let. in L. P. Smith Life & Lett. H. Wotton (1907) I. 247 The plot of his Majesty's pleasure-house shall in convenient time be provided. 1688Lond. Gaz. No. 2376/3 The Elector being lodged in the Pleasure-house without the Town, which was purposely built for Sultan Mahomet. 1756Nugent Gr. Tour, Italy III. 325 Fiorenzola, where the great duke has a pleasure-house. 1830Tennyson Pal. Art 1, I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house, Wherein at ease for aye to dwell. 1904R. J. Farrer Garden of Asia 106 How few of the many Europeans who visit Japan, ever see the real pleasure-houses of the country! 1908Daily Chron. 12 Dec. 4/6 The ballroom of a notorious eighteenth-century pleasure-house kept by a Mme. Cornelys. 1936A. W. Clapham Romanesque Archit. iii. 55 The actual court of Palermo leaned heavily towards the Moslem element and the pleasure-houses and palaces of the Favara, Menani (Roger II), la Ziza (William I) and la Cuba (William II) were almost purely Moslem both in form and decoration. |