FAIRGROUND • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Fairground

... there was the gay sound of a horn. Tara, tara, tara! it sang, and right into the middle of the Fairground drove a great tally-ho coach, with pretty young ladies and fine young gentlemen ...

— The Irish Twins • Lucy Fitch Perkins

... friend waiting at the end of the "Bull" gateway. It was a lovely morning. The air was cool and clear, and the sky was bright. It was easy to see which was the way to the soup kitchen, by the stragglers going and coming. We passed the famous "Orchard," now a kind of fairground, which has been the scene of so many popular excitements in troubled times. All was quiet in the "Orchard" that morning, except that, here, a starved-looking woman, with a bit of old shawl tucked round her head, and a pitcher ...

— Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine • Edwin Waugh