English

Alternative forms

• pleasure dome

Noun

pleasuredome ‎(plural pleasuredomes)

1. A place where one can relax, entertain or recreate.
   • 1999, Simon Reynolds, Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture, Routledge (1999), ISBN 9780415923736, 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 (2009), ISBN 9780857122124, 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. (2012), ISBN 9781612048826, page 174:

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