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plaisance

plaisance is the obsolete form of pleasance.

Meaning of pleasance

Noun

pleasance (countable and uncountable, plural pleasances)

  1. A pleasure ground laid out with shady walks, trees and shrubs, statuary, and ornamental water; a secluded part of a garden.
    • the pleasances of old Elizabethan houses1859, John Ruskin, The Two Paths
    Synonyms:
    pleasure garden
  2. (obsolete) Willingness to please, or the action of pleasing; courtesy.
  3. (obsolete) The feeling of being pleased; pleasure, delight.
    • Now ſtands the Brere like a Loꝛd alone, / Puffed vp with pꝛyde and vaine pleaſaunce: […]1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Februarie. Ægloga Secunda.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC, folio 6, verso

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Proper noun capitalized: Plaisance

Plaisance (plural Plaisances)

  1. A surname.

Forms of plaisance

Noun
pluralplaisances
Proper noun
pluralPlaisances

Questions about plaisance

What does plaisance mean?
Plaisance means a surname.
What is plaisance the obsolete form of?
Plaisance is the obsolete form of pleasance.
What part of speech is plaisance?
Plaisance is a proper noun.

Words near plaisance in the dictionary

  1. plainweave
  2. plainweaves
  3. plainwork
  4. Plair
  5. Plairs
  6. plaisance
  7. plaisances
  8. plaisanteur
  9. plaisanteurs
  10. plaisaunce
  11. plaisaunces

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