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

Now, though, Trump finds himself in actual peril because, for some unknown reason, he absconded with a horde of highly sensitive government documents as he left the White House and hid them away at his Mar-a-Lago pleasure dome.

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He shot “Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome” while on a visit home to Los Angeles.

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A 1928 Seattle Times article about the theater’s opening described the lavish new structure as “rivalling the magnificence of the fabulous ‘pleasure dome’ by Kubla Khan and for certain the equal of any theatrical pleasure dome of modern times.”

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As in “Kubla Khan,” my trip sparkles like a pleasure dome and echoes with cries of “Beware!”

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They were a workplace to some and a pleasure dome to others.

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