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pleas⋅ance

  [plez-uhns]
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–noun
1. a place laid out as a pleasure garden or promenade.
2. Archaic. pleasure.
Origin:
1300–50; ME plesaunce < MF plaisance. See pleasant, -ance
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pleas·ance   (plěz'əns)   
n.  
  1. A secluded garden or landscaped area.
  2. Archaic Pleasure or a source of pleasure.
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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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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