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单词 dream palace
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dream palace
dream palace n. (a) an ideal or dreamed-of world or existence (cf. castle in the air n. at castle n. 11); (b) a perfect house or home, a building of extravagant design or decoration; (c) a place where people can escape into a fantasy world; spec. a cinema (cf. dream factory n. (b)).
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1848 Sc. Temperance Rev. Nov. 494/1 Castle-building and dream palaces are always a-building.
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer 318 They [sc. his plans and projects] appeared to him in this his dark hour as the fantasies of an opium-eater or the dream-palaces of a slumbering child.
1907 Lebanon (Indiana) Patriot 2 May 4/1 Chicago's giant white city of dream palaces and magnificent distances!
1939 Moville (Iowa) Mail 2 Nov. 2/4 Little Lucy had never seen such a room as the one to which Edith led her. The whole house was, indeed, a dream palace.
1950 Winnipeg Free Press 23 Dec. 12/5 The public houses are less handsome now..(their place as dream palaces of the poor taken by super-cinemas).
1956 Independent (Long Beach, Calif.) 20 Apr. 2/1 While other theaters..were ballyhooing ‘The Swan’, a movie starring Her Serene Highness, one dream palace had the courage to state..that here was ‘One place where you won't see, hear, or read about Grace Kelly.’
1999 D. Haslam Manchester, Eng. iii. 67 The dream palaces mirrored more closely the relentless glamour of 1930s Hollywood than the real world outside.
2011 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 15 Jan. a16 In their dream palaces, Quebec would be a linguistically cleansed island paradise.
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