Etymology

pleasuredome

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Today it means: A place where one can relax, entertain or recreate. Full definition →

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The story

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."

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.