单词 | pleasure dome |
释义 | pleasure domen. A large, often luxurious building used for leisure, esp. as a venue for entertainment. Cf. pleasuredrome n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > place of amusement or entertainment > [noun] > assembly rooms or halls redoubt1702 assembly-room1744 drum-room1749 assembly house1762 pantheon1772 casino1789 pleasure dome1816 palace1831 melodeon1840 kursaal1850 winter garden1859 music hallc1883 Met1896 1816 S. T. Coleridge Kubla Khan in Christabel 55 In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree. 1892 Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, Wisconsin) 18 June This lordly pleasure dome and all its appendages Mr. Washington Potts had bought for himself. 1957 Observer 3 Nov. 19/2 The triumphal renaissance, last Thursday night, of the New Shakespeare Theatre in Liverpool. This lambent pleasure-dome..was built in the eighties. 1973 G. Beare Snake on Grave xvi. 93 It's a kind of floating pleasure dome, they have a restaurant, night-club, casino. 1995 Wire Jan. 49/3 Prince, or whatever he is calling himself this month, exposed his tacky love-nest pleasure-dome. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1816 |
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