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hippodrome
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hippodrome
1. a music hall, variety theatre, or circus
2. (in ancient Greece or Rome) an open-air course for horse and chariot races


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A Stupendous Mirror of Departed Empires': The Barnum Hippodromes and Circuses, 1874-1891.
But even from its highest point, the ordering of a garden through the repetition of compartments, geometric figures, ovals, and hippodromes could not be wholly perceived from within [my emphasis].
Whether it's siting aqueducts, building hippodromes, fighting off invading Carthaginians, expanding land and maritime trade routes or confronting the challenges of fire, plague and riot -- it's all in a day's work for a future emperor
 
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