
| Pleasance (Pleas"ance) (?), n. [F. plaisance. See Please.] 1. Pleasure; merriment; gayety; delight; kindness. [Archaic] Shak. "Full great pleasance." Chaucer. "A realm of pleasance." Tennyson. 2. A secluded part of a garden. [Archaic] "The pleasances of old Elizabethan houses." Ruskin. |
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