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pleasance |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: pleasance n 1: a pleasant and secluded part of a garden; usually attached to a mansion 2: a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience; "he was tingling with pleasure" [syn: {pleasure}] [ant: {pain}]
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