bear garden
a place for keeping or exhibiting bears, especially (formerly) for bearbaiting.
a place or scene of tumult.
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How to use bear garden in a sentence
Caste is a thing you should be very careful of in these days, so the best thing is to ask for the Bear-Garden straightaway.
The Bear-Garden is the name given to it by the legal profession, so I am quite in order in using the title.
There are a number of other interesting functionaries on the way to the Bear-Garden; but we must get on.
The way over bear garden was steep, the road a mere track among boulders.
The Long Roll | Mary JohnstonFrom a place of rational recreation, and improvement, it has become a mere bear-garden.
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor | Stephen Cullen Carpenter
British Dictionary definitions for bear garden
(formerly) a place where bears were exhibited and where bear-baiting took place
a place or scene of tumult and disorder
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