Lego Landとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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Legoland (複数形 Legolands)

1. (slang) A place characterised by square edges and extreme regularity.
   • 1997, Mark McCrum, No worries: a journey through Australia:

     ...three hundred yards back from that, behind a legoland of hotels and apartment blocks...

   • 2004, Tim Jepson, The rough guide to Canada:

     Its pristine stone houses, most of which date from around 1685, are undeniably photogenic, with their steep metal roofs, numerous chimneys and pastel-coloured shutters, but it's a Legoland townscape, devoid of the scars of history.

   • 2004, Neil Leach, Laurent Gutierrez, Valérie Portefaix, China:

     Gradually these Legolands appear bigger and bigger, closer and closer, as the aircraft descends.

   • 2004, Yorke M Rowan, Uzi Baram, Marketing heritage: archaeology and the consumption of the past:

     Unlike most cities and towns in the East, one Bavarian preservationist claimed, modernized West German cities had mutated into "schematized Legolands"...

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