Brewer's: Pandemonium

(A). A perfect pandemonium. A bear-garden for disorder and licentiousness. In allusion to the parliament of hell in Milton's Paradise Lost, book i. (Greek, pan daimon, every demon.) (See Cordeliers.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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