Hippodromes

Word HIPPODROMES
Character 11
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Definitions and meanings of "Hippodromes"

What do we mean by hippodromes?

A horse racing course.

A fraudulent sporting contest with a predetermined winner.

A circus with equestrian performances.

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The word "hippodromes" in example sentences

"Tork about yer marine hippodromes, - if this ain't one, I'd like to know!" affirmed another. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Mr. ERIC COOPER (President, Oildorado Days Festival): During the boomtown days of the early 1900s, we had hippodromes, we had opera theaters, we had all kinds of incredible infrastructure here in town. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Their chief companions, or rather, their most intimate friends, are the fellows who hang about livery stables, betting-rooms, race-courses, and hippodromes; crop-eared grooms, ❋ Various (N/A)

The gladiatorial shows, so popular in Rome, were forbidden here, though theatres, amphitheatres, and hippodromes kept their place. ❋ Various (N/A)

In revenge for that failure, the Press tried to console the natives by enlarging on the superior attraction of hippodromes, ice-saloons, and penny shows, with which it was surrounded, and contrasting them with the ❋ Henry A. Murray (N/A)

And they wore gold very generally, and clothed themselves in the Medic garments, which now they call "seric," [18] and passed their time, thus dressed, in theatres and hippodromes and in other pleasureable pursuits, and above all else in hunting. ❋ Procopius (N/A)

Theodatus, both in the theatres and in the hippodromes and wherever else it should be necessary for such a thing to be done; furthermore, that no statue of bronze nor of any other material should ever be set up to ❋ Procopius (N/A)

Ruins of theatres, hippodromes, temples, synagogues, baths, and villas witness to the presence of all the refinements of Graeco-Roman culture. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

"Talk about your marine hippodromes, if this ain't one I'd like to know!" declared another. ❋ Unknown (1905)

"Tork about yer marine hippodromes, -- if this ain't one, I'd like to know!" affirmed another. ❋ Jack London (1896)

+ These comprised stadia and hippodromes for races, and gymnasia and palæstræ for individual exercise, bathing, and amusement. ❋ Unknown (1890)

The _stadia_ and _hippodromes_ were oblong enclosures surrounded by tiers of seats and without conspicuous architectural features. ❋ Unknown (1890)

The Senate agrees that the preparations for the festival, the building of the temporary stages, hippodromes, tribunes, and scaffoldings shall be executed by the contractors (_redemptores_), and that the treasury officials shall provide the funds. ❋ Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani (1888)

Peneus and Alpheus flowed unnoticed through tracts of wood or wilderness; but upon the multitude of edifices, the dwellings, theatres, hippodromes, galleries, lecture halls, no destroyer's hand had yet fallen. ❋ George Gissing (1880)

Or the recommendation of Emilianus, that the people should be kept from thinking on the dangers and extremities which now threaten them, by being provided incessantly with public amusements at the theatres and hippodromes? ❋ Wilkie Collins (1856)

[FN#325] This trick is now common in the circuses and hippodromes of Europe, horses and bulls being easily taught to perform it: but India has as yet not produced anything equal to the "Cyclist elephant" of Paris. ❋ Anonymous (1855)

Not in Arabia, not in the hippodromes of Paris or London, could they have found their superiors -- perhaps not their equals -- for these men literally live in the saddle. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

Amid camps, temples, circuses, hippodromes, and public and private edifices, he, as it were, held an interior converse with the manes of those who seemed hovering about the capital of the old world; as if he had been a citizen of ancient Rome travelling in the modern. ❋ Isaac Disraeli (1807)

The adjacent isles were stored with an inexhaustible supply of marble; but the various materials were transported from the most remote shores of Europe and Asia; and the public and private buildings, the palaces, churches, aqueducts, cisterns, porticos, columns, baths, and hippodromes, were adapted to the greatness of the capital of the East. ❋ Edward Gibbon (1765)

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