| 单词 | fairground attraction |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfairground attraction General attributive, as fairground attraction, fairground ride, etc. ΚΠ 1866 Documents Assembly State N.Y., 89th Session IV. 378 I was..in the Fair Ground building used as a hospital at Goldsboro'. 1872 Kansas Mag. Oct. 386/2 The fair-ground stalls shall be crowded with the pampered specimens of the master's skill and care. 1890 29th Ann. Rep. State Board Agric. Michigan 521 A contract was entered into by this association for the purchase of a fair ground site. 1934 P. Allingham Cheapjack ii. 18 I discovered that ‘tick-off’ was the fair-ground slang for fortune-teller. 1953 Encounter Oct. 40/1 A blue-green, rococo building..that reminds me of a fair-ground pavilion. 1971 L. Beckwith About my Father's Business (1973) xi. 135 Neither Mother nor Father had the time or inclination to visit the fairground amusements. 1991 D. Lodge Paradise News i. i. 16 He looked suddenly cheerful, grinning and waving..like a child on a fairground ride. 2010 South Afr. 2 Feb. 18/4 Adjacent to the gardens..was the ‘Winter Wonderland’, an array of fairground attractions such as a large Ferris wheel, stalls selling pies, [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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