Paris-Garden.
A bear-garden; a noisy, disorderly place. In allusion to the bear-garden so called on the Thames bank-side, kept by Robert de Paris in the reign of Richard II.
“Do you take the court for a Paris-garden?”—Shakespeare: Henry VIII., v. 3.
A bear-garden; a noisy, disorderly place. In allusion to the bear-garden so called on the Thames bank-side, kept by Robert de Paris in the reign of Richard II.
“Do you take the court for a Paris-garden?”—Shakespeare: Henry VIII., v. 3.
Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.