pleasure-ground

See also: pleasure ground

English

Noun

pleasure-ground (plural pleasure-grounds)

1. Alternative form of pleasure ground.
   • 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter VI, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume III, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 111:

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

   • 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter VI, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 130:

     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.

   • 1897, “The Advertising Nuisance [Editorial Article]”, in Charles Sprague Sargent, editor, Garden and Forest: A Journal of Horticulture, Landscape Art, page 409:

     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.