pleasure garden en · NOUN
Meanings
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A park or garden that is open to the public for entertainment, typically including concert halls, bandstands, amusement rides, and zoos.
Pleasure gardens offered a wide range of visual and musical sensations. […] If you wanted to slip the bounds of sexual decorum, you knew when and where to find willing accomplices inside the pleasure garden.
2013, Jonathan Conlin, editor, The Pleasure Garden, from Vauxhall to Coney Island, University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 26:
- Synonym of pleasure ground.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| pleasure-garden | alternative | lexicographic | |
| pleasure gardens | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Synonyms
Translations (5)
de Lustgarten (park for entertainment) · ru вокза́л (park for entertainment) · hu park (park for entertainment) · pl ogród wypoczynkowy (park for entertainment) · hu díszkert (park for entertainment)