pleasuredome

See also: pleasure dome

English

Alternative forms

• pleasure dome

Etymology

pleasure +‎ dome

Noun

pleasuredome (plural pleasuredomes)

1. A place where one can relax, entertain or recreate.
   • 1797, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Kubla Khan: Or A Vision in a Dream”, in Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision: The Pains of Sleep, London: […] John Murray, […], by William Bulmer and Co. […], published 1816, →OCLC, page 55:

     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.

   • 1984, “Welcome To The Pleasuredome”, performed by Frankie Goes to Hollywood:

     In Xanadu did Kublai Khan a pleasuredome erect / Moving on, keep moving on, yeah / […] We're a long way from home / Welcome to the pleasuredome

   • 1999, Simon Reynolds, Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture, Routledge, →ISBN, page 47:

     Then again, sampladelia may equally be a component of a Krokerite dystopia of "cold seduction": "a cool hallucinatory culture of special effects personalities moving at warp speed to nowhere," a virtual-reality pleasuredome where the self is a will-o'-the-wisp buffeted by "ceaseless movement in the eddies of cultural matter."

   • 2009, Adrian Grant, Michael Jackson: The Visual Documentary, Omnibuss Press, →ISBN, unnumbered page:

     When Michael agreed to be interviewed by Oprah Winfrey in 1993, more than a hundred million people around the world became privy to the fantasy of Neverland, his California pleasuredome.

   • 2012, Bruce Clark, Paradise for Beginners, Strategic Book Publishing and Rights Co., →ISBN, page 174:

     The noise level thudded beyond deemed acceptability for a construction site, let alone a pleasuredome.