pleasuredome

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pleasuredome

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From pleasure + dome, from the opening lines of Kubla Khan (completed 1797; published 1816) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge: "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure-dome decree: / Where Alph, the sacred river, ran / Through caverns measureless to man / Down to a sunless sea."

noun pleasuredomes · pleasure dome · pleasure-dome

A place where one can relax, entertain or recreate. Near-synonym: pleasuredom
Similar: pleasure palace, Xanadu, Shangri-La, paradise, pleasuredom

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@misc{pleasuredome_2026,
  title = {pleasuredome},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pleasuredome},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}