pleasance

[ plez-uhns ]

noun

1. a place laid out as a pleasure garden or promenade.
2. Archaic. pleasure.

pleasance

/ ˈplɛzəns /

noun

1. a secluded part of a garden laid out with trees, walks, etc
2. archaic.
   enjoyment or pleasure

Word History and Origins

Origin of pleasance¹

1300–50; Middle English plesaunce < Middle French plaisance. See pleasant, -ance

Word History and Origins

Origin of pleasance¹

C14 plesaunce, from Old French plaisance, from plaisant pleasant, from plaisir to please

Example Sentences

Only the prospect of the Trent Valley and the Derbyshire foot-hills, visible beyond the pleasance, still pleased; and this view was vague and sad and distant.

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But a mediæval knight went into his pleasance, to gather roses and hear the birds sing; or rode out hunting or hawking.

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After hee had a while eaten, he fel to discourse with such pleasance, that all the table were greatly delighted therewith.

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Beyond it is the Park Lane or Belgravia of Crawley—the residential and superior modern district of country houses, each in midst of its own little pleasance.

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By 1752 Pitt had converted South Lodge, in the opinion of his friends or flatterers, into a delightful pleasance.

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