|Pleasance (Pleas"ance) (?), n.
[F. plaisance. See Please.]
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.
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