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Pleasance   Listen
noun
Pleasance  n.  
1.
Pleasure; merriment; gayety; delight; kindness. (Archaic) "Full great pleasance." "A realm of pleasance."
2.
A secluded part of a garden. (Archaic) "The pleasances of old Elizabethan houses."





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"Pleasance" Quotes from Famous Books



... and the sombre woods of the farther coast, it was scarcely a wonder that his eye had failed at first to find it. Here were no pomps of lord or baron; little luxuriance could prevail behind those eyeless gables; there could be no suave pleasance about those walls hanging over the noisy and inhospitable wave. No pomp, no pleasant amenities; the place seemed to jut into the sea, defying man's oldest and most bitter enemy, its gable ends and one crenelated bastion or turret betraying its sinister relation ...
— Doom Castle • Neil Munro
... put an enemy into their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and ...
— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown
... whom I shall choose to wife; some fair And highborn maiden, worthy to be queen Hereafter."—So the Prince, albeit unseen, Heard, and his soul rebelled against the thing His sire had willed; and slowly wandering About the darkling pleasance—all amid A maze of intertangled walks, or hid In cedarn glooms, or where mysterious bowers Were heavy with the breath of drowsed flowers— Something, he knew not what, within his heart Rose like a faint-heard voice and said "Depart From hence and follow where ...
— The Poems of William Watson • William Watson


Words linked to "Pleasance" :   retreat, delectation, sexual pleasure, delight, pleasant, comfort


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