noun
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a secluded part of a garden laid out with trees, walks, etc
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archaic enjoyment or pleasure
Etymology
Origin of pleasance
1300–50; Middle English plesaunce < Middle French plaisance. See pleasant, -ance
Example Sentences
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But a mediæval knight went into his pleasance, to gather roses and hear the birds sing; or rode out hunting or hawking.
From Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things by John Ruskin
He looked out of place in that quaint old pleasance on the desolate border side.
From By Right of Purchase by Harold Bindloss
At seven o'clock the iron gate opened, and the children streamed into the pleasance, climbed the steps, and disappeared into the house.
From The Undying Past by Hermann Sudermann
After hee had a while eaten, he fel to discourse with such pleasance, that all the table were greatly delighted therewith.
From The Rogues and Vagabonds of Shakespeare's Youth Awdeley's 'Fraternitye of vacabondes' and Harman's 'Caveat' by John Awdeley
At last he came to the tall, strait gate, wrought of old iron, that admitted to the pleasance.
From The Great House by Stanley John Weyman
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