pleasure garden

English

Alternative forms

  • pleasure-garden

Noun

pleasure garden (plural pleasure gardens)

  1. A park or garden that is open to the public for entertainment, typically including concert halls, bandstands, amusement rides, and zoos.
    Synonym: pleasance
    • 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.
  2. Synonym of pleasure ground.

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