What is "hippodromes"

Usage examples of "hippodromes".

It was chockablock with salons and saloons, hippodromes and nickel pitches, emporia, divertissements, hijinks, kickshaws, bagatelles, burlesque, and buffoonery.

Now we have many of our own, from immense spectacles in permanent hippodromes to the shabby balagans that appear at every country fair.

People came to the hippodromes to see blood and hear screaming as much as to admire speed.

In the hippodromes of the Empire the charioteers raced with Death-the Ninth Driver-as much as with each other.

The two factions competed in the hippodromes with their chariots, in the theatres of the Empire, with their poets' declamations and group chants, and-not at all infrequently-in the streets and alleyways with cudgels and blades.

To-day, there are brand-new, wide streets, arenas, circuses, hippodromes, railway stations, and a prison, Mazas, there.

There are now broad new streets, amphitheatres, circuses, hippodromes, railroad depôts, a prison, Mazas.