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Webster 1913 Edition
Pleasance
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Pleasance
PLEASANCE
,Noun.
Definition 2024
Pleasance
Pleasance
See also: pleasance
English
Proper noun
Pleasance
- A female given name.
- 2008, Sherry L. Ackerman, Behind the Looking Glass (page 32)
- Similarly, the verse at the close of Through the Looking Glass is an acrostic for Alice Pleasance Liddell.
- 2008, Sherry L. Ackerman, Behind the Looking Glass (page 32)
- A surname.
pleasance
pleasance
See also: Pleasance
English
Noun
pleasance (plural pleasances)
- (archaic) 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 houses. — Ruskin.
- (obsolete) Pleasure.
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- 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: Conteyning Tvvelue Æglogues Proportionable to the Twelue Monethes. Entitled to the Noble and Vertuous Gentleman most Worthy of all Titles both of Learning and Cheualrie M. Philip Sidney, London: Printed by Hugh Singleton, dwelling in Creede Lane neere vnto Ludgate at the signe of the gylden Tunne, and are there to be solde, OCLC 606515406; republished in Francis J[ames] Child, editor, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: The Text Carefully Revised, and Illustrated with Notes, Original and Selected by Francis J. Child: Five Volumes in Three, volume III, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; The Riverside Press, Cambridge, published 1855, OCLC 793557671, page 406, lines 222–228:
- Now stands the Brere like a lord alone, / Puffed up with pryde and vaine pleasaunce. / But all this glee had no continuaunce: / For eftsones winter gan to approche; / The blustering Boreas did encroche, / And beate upon the solitarie Brere; / For nowe no succoure was seene him nere.