"My pleasure barge awaits, even now," Xaro Xhoan Daxos called out.

"Eighty-three, if one does not count my pleasure barge."

Their pleasure barge was a permanent floating orchard in miniature.

Locke stared at the don's tall glass-fronted liquor cabinet-one even more impressive than the collection his pleasure barge carried.

But we'll need to go in a warship, not a pleasure barge.

Guests were directed onto a huge pleasure barge, paneled in ivory with gold trim, on which long banquet tables stood ready.

A pleasure barge is a flat bottomed, slow moving boat used for leisure.

Until the middle of the 19th century, pleasure barges were common sights on the River Thames in London and beyond.

Handel's famous Water Music was composed to be played with its audiences listening from pleasure barges.

It is only in more recent times that they are being renovated to become today's modern pleasure barges.