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  • noun A place where one can relax, entertain or recreate.

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Examples

  • This week, for example, we learned of another aspect of the Newham stately pleasuredome that even Samuel Coleridge recently banned by Wada after traces of a poetry-enhancing drug, believed to be opium, were found in his urine could not have come up with, even when he was really toasted: Thomas Cook is the official short-break provider of the 2012 Games.

    Revealed – London 2012's official quirky-humour partner 2011

  • The player controls a spirit-like person who must be brought into the real world to get to the pleasuredome.

    3 games that epitomize the 1980s 2009

  • Pearl Jam emerged from the pleasuredome that is Seattle in 1991.

    Pearl Jam's Primal Scream Therapy 2008

  • Pavilion of Ultimate Bliss, a carnal pleasuredome populated by writhing nymphomaniacs and presided over by a brutal potentate named - a little pathetically - the Prince of Ning Tony Ho.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • Of course not - yes yes, pity the poor men who have so much of the pleasuredome at their disposal.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • Tracey MacLeod eats at Terrance Conran's Boundary in east London and finds the Victorian warehouse that houses the restaurant remodeled into a "thoroughly modern East End pleasuredome".

    Latest hospitality news from CatererSearch 2009

  • In the "provinces" people are so limited as to who they can see (especially non British artists) that there will be a substantial number who will visit their local pleasuredome to see whoever happens to be playing just for the novelty value if nothing else.

    Word Magazine - 2009

  • By the time of "Life Unfolds His Mystery," Gerald appears set to revel in the pleasuredome, focusing his sharp rhythms against the sick infringements of the terrordome.

    Cokemachineglow.com 2008

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