Pey‧ton Place /ˌpeɪtn ˈpleɪs/
a novel by Grace Metalious that was made into a very popular television soap opera(1964–68), about the lives of a group of people in a small town in New England. People sometimes say that a situation is like Peyton Place when they mean that a group of people have many secrets and complicated emotional relationships.

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