bowladrome

From bowl +‎ -a- +‎ -drome. Compare French boulodrome.

bowladrome (plural bowladromes)

1. (rare) Synonym of bowling alley.
   • 1958, Edward J. Waterhouse, “Report of the Director, 1958”, in One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Annual Report of Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown, Mass.: Perkins School for the Blind, →OCLC, page 46:

     Mr. Anthony Ackerman, a teacher of high school English and Master of Bridgman Cottage, is also Social Affairs Coordinator for the Upper School. Under his leadership many events took place for our older girls and boys. These included such things as visits to local bowladromes, social and square dances both on and off the campus, roller skating, ice skating, tobogganing, socials at local churches, meals in foreign style restaurants, card parties, picnics, and other similar occasions.

   • 1962 September, “Every Businessman’s Concern”, in The Magazine of Cambridge, volume 22, number 11, Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge Chamber of Commerce, →OCLC, page 8, column 2:

     The activities of bowling alleys came under the searching eyes of the lawmakers when they refused to allow the sale of alcoholic beverages in bowling alleys or bowladromes (not applicable to premises licensed before August 20, 1962) and again when they sustained the Governor’s veto on H.2760 which would have prohibited bowling alleys from opening between the hours of 1 and 8 a.m.

   • 1993, John D. Spooner, “Duke’s Game”, in The Foursome, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 192:

     The Château Grande was out on the main road to Worcester, a highway eventually leading to New York and lined with fried-chicken take-out stands, miniature golf courses, bowladromes and motels.

   • 2002, Mark Costello, chapter 12, in Big If, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 199:

     They were passing malls and bowladromes and home improvement superstores.