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Luna Park The name of an amusement centre on Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York; also transf., any such entertainment park. Also as v. intr.
1911H. Hawthorne New York viii. 53 Luna Park and Dreamland are large sections of Coney..within whose gates are real fairylands of plaster palaces. 1921A. Huxley Crome Yellow ii. 8 The lights of Luna Park. 1930J. Collier His Monkey Wife iii. 33 The Fun Fairs and Luna Parks of the carnal capitals of Europe. 1936F. Clune Roaming round Darling xxiv. 244 Over a by⁓wash, then, Luna-parking down a big dipper, belly half⁓way up the other side. 1956M. Duggan Immanuel's Land 90 Up at Tibidabo in the empty luna-park an aluminium aeroplane turns slowly at the end of a long pole. 1957A. Hepburn Compl. Guide N.Y. City (new ed.) 109 Biggest and best of the amusement centers are Steeplechase, Luna Park, Dreamland. 1967G. Greene May we borrow your Husband? 10 As squalid as a closed fun-fair with Lunar [sic] Park boarded up. |