Deer Park

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noun

a town on central Long Island, in SE New York.

a town in S Texas.

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Examples from the Web for deer park

The old keeper had betrayed to him that in a cleft of a tolerably lofty rock in the deer-park a screech-owl had built a nest.
Luke Barnicott|William Howitt
Where a deer-park has long existed on his paternal estate, it goes to an Englishman's heart to give it up.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII, No. 29. August, 1873.|Various
We did stay in a place once where there was a deer-park, and also private theatricals.
The Tragic Muse|Henry James
At the end of the deer-park stands the house of the proprietress, an elderly single lady of large fortune.
Tour in England, Ireland, and France, in the years 1826, 1827, 1828 and 1829.|Hermann Pckler-Muskau

Her mind was to be his—attached to his own like a small garden-plot to a deer-park.
The Portrait of a Lady|Henry James