pleasance
noun/ˈplɛzəns/
Etymology From Middle English plaisaunce, plesaunce, from Old French plaisance. By surface analysis, please + -ance.
1
A pleasure ground laid out with shady walks, trees and shrubs, statuary, and ornamental water; a secluded part of a garden.
- the pleasances of old Elizabethan houses1859, John Ruskin, The Two Paths:
- It is a tropical pleasance, washed by a noble river.1924 June 4, E[dward] M[organ] Forster, A Passage to India, London: Edward Arnold & Co., →OCLC:
2
Obsolete Willingness to please, or the action of pleasing; courtesy.
3
Obsolete The feeling of being pleased; pleasure, delight.
- Now ſtands the Brere like a Loꝛd alone, / Puffed vp with pꝛyde and vaine pleaſaunce: […]1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Februarie. Ægloga Secunda.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC, folio 6, verso:
- Related terms
- pleasurance