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   hippodrome

   /ˈhɪpədrəʊm/

   noun

   • 1. a theatre or concert hall: "the Birmingham Hippodrome"
   • 2. (in ancient Greece or Rome) a stadium for chariot or horse races.

   Word Origin mid 16th century (in hippodrome (sense 2)): from French, via Latin from Greek hippodromos, from hippos ‘horse’ + dromos ‘race, course’. The early sense led to the term's use as a grandiose name for a modern circus, later applied to other places of popular entertainment (hippodrome (sense 1), late 19th century).

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