pleasure dome

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of pleasure dome¹

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

Example Sentences

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

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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.

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So he built his enormous and gorgeous house and called it Pleasure Dome.

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She passed the house and kept on, in the direction of Pleasure Dome.

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Pleasure Dome had a cove or inlet behind it, Moore had told me, but that was not visible from my window.

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