Meaning of pleasance | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A pleasure ground laid out with shady walks, trees and shrubs, statuary, and ornamental water; a secluded part of a garden.
   countable, uncountable
2. A female given name from French.
3. Willingness to please, or the action of pleasing; courtesy.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
4. A surname transferred from the given name.
5. The feeling of being pleased; pleasure, delight.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“the pleasances of old Elizabethan houses”

“It is a tropical pleasance, washed by a noble river.”

“Now ſtands the Brere like a Loꝛd alone, / Puffed vp with pꝛyde and vaine pleaſaunce: […]”

“Similarly, the verse at the close of Through the Looking Glass is an acrostic for Alice Pleasance Liddell.”

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