• Pleasure-ground

    Full definition of pleasure-ground

    Noun

    1. Alternative form of en.
      • Austen Sense and Sensibility|volume=III|page=111|passage=Cleveland was a spacious, modern-built house, situated on a sloping lawn. It had no park, but the pleasure-grounds were tolerably extensive; ...
      • Thomson Widows and Widowers|volume=II|page=130|passage=The evening of Friday drew on: it was spent, not as of late it had been, in loitering among the flowers and statues of the old-fashioned pleasure-grounds, or in hanging over the stone balustrades of the steps which led on to the terrace, watching “the star that calls the bee to rest,” or scenting the mingled odours of the honeysuckle and the jasmine, friends of dull night: such tranquil pleasures were suspended,—perhaps never, in that gloomy house, to be renewed.
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