单词 | pleasure house |
释义 | pleasure housen. A house used for pleasure or recreation; spec. a summer house. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > place of amusement or entertainment > [noun] > house used for recreation pleasure house1590 casino1831 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > summer house or holiday house summer houseOE pleasure house1590 mahal1610 aestivation1625 summer cottage1638 cottage1805 Swiss cottage1820 summer home1821 casita1822 chalet1853 bathing-box1883 rest home1889 dacha1896 housekeeping cottage1901 weekend cottage1911 weekender1921 bach1940 hafod1952 gite1964 getaway1968 vacation home1969 timeshare1974 share1984 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > house used for other specific purpose mourning house1535 pleasure house1590 meeting house1656 molly-house1728 noon-house1845 maneaba1944 1590 H. Wotton Let. in L. P. Smith Life & Lett. Sir H. Wotton (1907) I. 247 The plot of his Majesty's pleasure-house shall in convenient time be provided. 1688 London Gaz. No. 2376/3 The Elector being lodged in the Pleasure-house without the Town, which was purposely built for Sultan Mahomet. 1749 T. Nugent Grand Tour III. 299 Fiorenzola, where the great duke has a pleasure-house. 1775 C. Johnstone Chrysal III. xix. 185 To..convert the building to the better use of a pleasure house. 1821 C. Lamb in London Mag. Oct. 387/1 C—,..can conjure up icy domes, and pleasure-houses for Kubla Khan. 1832 Ld. Tennyson Palace of Art i, in Poems (new ed.) 69 I built my soul a lordly pleasurehouse, Wherein at ease for aye to dwell. 1908 Daily Chron. 12 Dec. 4/6 The ballroom of a notorious eighteenth-century pleasure-house kept by a Mme. Cornelys. 1936 A. W. Clapham Romanesque Archit. W. Europe iii. 55 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. 1999 Renaissance Q. 52 412 Located a short distance from the town, it was, like Bolsover, a pleasure house. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1590 |
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