Venusbergn.
/ˈviːnəsbəːɡ//ˈveɪnəsbɛːk/ The court of Venus, in German legend and esp. in Wagner's Tannhäuser found in a grotto on the Hörselberg mountain; hence in transferred use, any environment whose primary characteristic is sensual pleasure.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > place of sexual activity
Venusberg1855
the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [noun] > Venus or Aphrodite > abode of
Venusberg1855
1855 ‘G. Eliot’ in Fraser's Mag. July 55/1 The libretto is founded on the old German saga of the Venusberg and the knightly minstrel Tannhäuser.
1890 G. B. Shaw How to become Musical Critic (1960) 192 Not even a visit from the ghost of Sterndale Bennett could have waved him back from the Venusberg then.
1925 H. Crane Let. 28 Feb. (1965) 199 A perfect Venusberg of flowers and shrubbery.
1934 H. G. Wells Exper. in Autobiogr. I. iii. 107 Bowkett had his own secret incidental twilight Venusberg.
1962 Guardian 15 Nov. 9/3 We had wonderful plans for Windsor. It was to have been an expense account Venusberg.
1981 M. J. Benkovitz Aubrey Beardsley iv. 110 Beardsley depicted..[a] more violent encounter between satyrs and the residents of the Venusberg.
Derivatives
Venusˈbergian adj.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [adjective] > place of sexual activity
Venusbergian1896
the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [adjective] > relating to or associated with Venus > of abode of
Venusbergian1896
1896 G. B. Shaw Let. 19 Feb. (1965) I. 602 A Venusbergian Asta is too much.
1977 Gramophone Dec. 1087/1 Those whining Wagnerian tubas in ‘Mars’ are matched by the almost Venusbergian sensuousness of ‘Venus’ here.
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