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Venusberg
(ˈviːnəsbɜːg, ‖ ˈveːnəsbɛrk)
[Ger., lit. ‘mountain of Venus’.]
The court of Venus, in German legend and esp. in Wagner's Tristan found in a grotto on the Hörselberg mountain; hence in transf. use, any environment whose primary characteristic is sensual pleasure.
1855[see saga1 2]. 1890G. B. Shaw How to become Mus. Critic (1960) 192 Not even a visit from the ghost of Sterndale Bennett could have waved him back from the Venusberg then. 1925H. Crane Let. 28 Feb. (1965) 199 A perfect Venusberg of flowers and shrubbery. 1934H. G. Wells Exper. Autobiogr. I. iii. 107 Bowkett had his own secret incidental twilight Venusberg. 1962Guardian 15 Nov. 9/3 We had wonderful plans for Windsor. It was to have been an expense account Venusberg. 1981M. J. Benkovitz Aubrey Beardsley iv. 110 Beardsley depicted..[a] more violent encounter between satyrs and the residents of the Venusberg.
Hence Venusˈbergian a.
1896G. B. Shaw Let. 19 Feb. (1965) I. 602 A Venusbergian Asta is too much. 1977Gramophone Dec. 1087/1 Those whining Wagnerian tubas in ‘Mars’ are matched by the almost Venusbergian sensuousness of ‘Venus’ here. |