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pleasance

[ plez-uhns ]

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noun

pleasance

/ ˈplɛzəns /

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

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

What manner of man was this Ferdinando de' Medici who had converted his garden pleasance into a museum?

In truth, more than one party entered and traversed the Pleasance.

Meet me in the Pleasance when the Queen has retired to her chamber.

The slowest-growing shrubs in its pleasance were tough, seamed, branched and bowed with time.

Dame Fitzooth and the Squire followed later to the pleasance, and there one and all tried conclusions.

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