Meaning of pleasure-ground | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [C2]

Examples

“Cleveland was a spacious, modern-built house, situated on a sloping lawn. It had no park⟳, but the pleasure-grounds were tolerably extensive; […]”

“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.”

“In the case of offensive advertising in the neighborhood of a parkway, it is evident that such advertising is displayed to attract⟳ the attention of the people that frequent a public pleasure-ground.”

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