Brewer's: Paris-Garden

A bear-garden; a noisy, disorderly place. In allusion to the bear-garden so called on the Thames bank-side, kept by Robert de Paris in the reign of Richard II.

“Do you take the court for a Paris-garden?” —Shakespeare: Henry VIII., v. 3.

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