pleasure garden
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editpleasure garden (plural pleasure gardens)
- A park or garden that is open to the public for entertainment, typically including concert halls, bandstands, amusement rides, and zoos.
- 2013, Jonathan Conlin, editor, The Pleasure Garden, from Vauxhall to Coney Island, University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 26:
- 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.
- Synonym of pleasure ground
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editpark for entertainment
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