pleasure garden
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The landowners sold the site in 1926 to Septimus Wray, a pleasure garden entrepreneur who began opening the caverns to visitors.
From BBC • Dec. 25, 2024
During the four years that Caligula occupied the Roman throne, his favorite hideaway was an imperial pleasure garden called Horti Lamiani, the Mar-a-Lago of its day.
From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2021
The average pleasure garden had promenades, bandstands and follies, plus curious performers such as Michael Boai, who played music on his chin, or “the Beckwith frogs”, a family who ate breakfast in an underwater tank.
From The Guardian • Jul. 23, 2019
And Perpetua began to talk with them in Greek; and we set them apart in the pleasure garden beneath a rose tree.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2019
Sadly, Siddhartha went to a pleasure garden that belonged to him, closed the gates, sat under a mango tree, and felt horror and death in his heart.
From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse
