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1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus ii. iii. sig. L^v Rostra.., which place of moste resorte in all the citie of Rome, was so called vpon this occasion.

1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. xi. 45 b A towne of great resort [Fr. de grant apport] aswel from the firme land as the sea.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) i. ii. 93 But shall all our houses of resort in the Suburbs be puld downe? View more context for this quotation

1683 Britanniæ Speculum 104 Encouraging..to build Houses, Temples, and Places of Publick Resort.

1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 83. ⁋1 It is my frequent Practice to visit Places of Resort in this Town.

1725 Thomas in Portland Papers VI. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) 113 There is a large colliery of great resort.

1785 Aerostatic Spy II. iv. 79 The informers often make as many thieves as they detect, who are nursed up..in such houses of resort as must pave the way to their destruction.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vii. 214 The Five Mile Act had banished him..from almost all places of public resort.

1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. x. 76 Their seats of favorite resort, in the early part of the season.

1919 Times 22 Feb. 10/2 Those who are able to do so will diminish their chance of contracting the disease by keeping away from all places of public resort.

1952 J. R. Swanton Indian Tribes N. Amer. (U.S. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. Bull. No. 145) 586 The territory they occupied included Nass Inlet, which was a place of resort for tribes..during the eulochon season.

2002 Huntingdon Libr. Q. 65 199 With adequate funds they might easily have fallen into the course of maintaining a private place of resort for the chosen.