Hypertext Webster Gateway: "pleasance"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
pleasance
n 1: a pleasant and secluded part of a garden; usually attached
to a mansion
2: a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people
desire to experience; "he was tingling with pleasure"
[syn: {pleasure}] [ant: {pain}]
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