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Definition of Pleasure ground
1. Noun. A commercially operated park with stalls and shows for amusement.
Terms within: Ride
Generic synonyms: Common, Commons, Green, Park
Specialized synonyms: Theme Park
Specialized synonyms: Disneyland, Walt Disney World
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pleasure Ground
Literary usage of Pleasure ground
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the San Francisco Disaster and Mount Vesuvius Horror by Charles Eugene Banks, Opie Percival Read (1906)
"CHAPTER XXII GOLDEN GATE PARK Chief Pride and Joy of San Francisco—Built on Sand
Dunes—Grand pleasure ground for the People— Beautiful Trees and Flowers, ..."
2. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1887)
"The discharge of fire-arms on any lawn, park, or pleasure-ground directly
appurtenant to or within gunshot of any occupied dwelling- house the property of ..."
3. Travels on the Western Slope of the Mexican Cordillera: In the Form of Fifty by Cincinnatus (1857)
"pleasure ground near the Factory—Its Ornaments—Fountain with Gold Fish— Residence of
... This high wall extends around the whole of the pleasure-ground, ..."
4. The Art of Landscape Gardening by Humphry Repton, John Nolen (1907)
"... to the mansion that scene of embellished neatness, usually called a pleasure-ground.
The quantity of this dressed ground was formerly very considerable. ..."
5. The History of the San Francisco Disaster and Mount Vesuvius Horror by Charles Eugene Banks, Opie Percival Read (1906)
"CHAPTER XXII GOLDEN GATE PARK Chief Pride and Joy of San Francisco—Built on Sand
Dunes—Grand pleasure ground for the People— Beautiful Trees and Flowers, ..."
6. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1887)
"The discharge of fire-arms on any lawn, park, or pleasure-ground directly
appurtenant to or within gunshot of any occupied dwelling- house the property of ..."
7. Travels on the Western Slope of the Mexican Cordillera: In the Form of Fifty by Cincinnatus (1857)
"pleasure ground near the Factory—Its Ornaments—Fountain with Gold Fish— Residence of
... This high wall extends around the whole of the pleasure-ground, ..."
8. The Art of Landscape Gardening by Humphry Repton, John Nolen (1907)
"... to the mansion that scene of embellished neatness, usually called a pleasure-ground.
The quantity of this dressed ground was formerly very considerable. ..."
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