Ranelagh [ Sports & Leisure ]
… whereas his enthusiastic young niece Lydia writes that ‘Ranelagh looks like the inchanted palace of a genie [i.e. an Oriental supernatural character], adorned with the most exquisite performances of painting, carving, and gilding, …
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