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pleasance
English
Etymology
Old French plaisance.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?pl?z?ns/
Noun
pleasance (countable and uncountable, plural pleasances)
- (obsolete) Willingness to please, or the action of pleasing; courtesy. [14th-17th c.]
- (obsolete) The feeling of being pleased; pleasure, delight. [14th-19th c.]
- 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender, in Francis J Child (editor), The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, volume III, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company 1855, OCLC 793557671, page 406, lines 222–228:
- Now stands the Brere like a lord alone, / Puffed up with pryde and vaine pleasaunce.
- 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender, in Francis J Child (editor), The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, volume III, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company 1855, OCLC 793557671, page 406, lines 222–228:
- Grounds laid out with shady walks, trees and shrubs, statuary, and ornamental water; a secluded part of a garden. [from 16th c.]
- 1859, John Ruskin, The Two Paths
- the pleasances of old Elizabethan houses
- 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin 2005, p. 6:
- It is a tropical pleasance, washed by a noble river.
- 1859, John Ruskin, The Two Paths
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plesance
Middle English
Noun
plesance
- pleasance
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)
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