pleasure dome


noun
  1. a large building, facility, or place used for recreation.

Origin of pleasure dome

1
First recorded in 1797; phrase apparently coined by S. T. Coleridge in his poem “Kubla Khan”

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How to use pleasure dome in a sentence

  • Eventually they reached the Enslee place—the mountain that was Enslee's, with the stately pleasure dome he had decreed there.

    What Will People Say? | Rupert Hughes
  • I will tell you what it is, but first you must hear the history of a young Persian girl who once lived in that pleasure-dome.

  • So he built his enormous and gorgeous house and called it pleasure dome.

    The Deep Lake Mystery | Carolyn Wells
  • She passed the house and kept on, in the direction of pleasure dome.

    The Deep Lake Mystery | Carolyn Wells
  • pleasure dome had a cove or inlet behind it, Moore had told me, but that was not visible from my window.

    The Deep Lake Mystery | Carolyn Wells