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pleasure dome
noun
- a large building, facility, or place used for recreation.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of pleasure dome1
First recorded in 1797; phrase apparently coined by S. T. Coleridge in his poem “Kubla Khan”
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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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