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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[F.

plaisance

. See

Pleasure; merriment; gayety; delight; kindness.

[Archaic]

Shak.

“Full great pleasance.”

Chaucer.

“A realm of pleasance.”

Tennyson.

A secluded part of a garden.

[Archaic]

The

pleasances

of old Elizabethan houses.

Ruskin.

Noun.

plez'ance. [See Please.] Gayety; pleasantry; merriment.