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/plˈɛzəns/
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NOUN
- a pleasant and secluded part of a garden; usually attached to a mansion
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a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience
he was tingling with pleasure
How To Use pleasance In A Sentence
- And when that messengers of strange countries come before him, the meinie of the soldan, when the strangers speak to him, they be about the soldan with swords drawn and gisarmes and axes, their arms lifted up in high with those weapons for to smite upon them, if they say any word that is displeasance to the soldan. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
- And when that messengers of strange countries come before him, the meinie of the soldan, when the strangers speak to him, they be about the soldan with swords drawn and gisarmes and axes, their arms lifted up in high with those weapons for to smite upon them, if they say any word that is displeasance to the soldan. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
- Absent, none taketh heed to him or his concerns; Present, he hath no part in life or pleasance aye. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- I trust I did not aught to your displeasance, _Mother_? Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall
- Escaping post-war London, the grieving widow directed her energies into creating her own decorative version of a Scottish pleasance, planting fruit and vegetables as well as flowers among its topiary.
- They passed the night in all pleasance and happiness, and on the morrow Hasan changed his clothes and donning The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- The abbot, neither overawed by the strength nor by the quantity of the potion, took it off with what he himself would have called a feeling of solace and pleasance, and his voice became much more composed; he signified himself as comforted extraordinarily by the medicine, and willing to proceed to answer any questions which could be put to him by his gallant young friend. Castle Dangerous
- Lady, it means not disobedience to you, nor any displeasance done to this young damsel" -- and De Gernet turned and bowed to Roisia. A Forgotten Hero Not for Him
- Each house of any size had a "pleasance," and the "herberie," or physic garden, which was the pioneer of the pie-plant bed, was connected with the monasteries. Comic History of England
- Brother Cadfael was standing in the middle of his walled herb-garden, looking pensively about him at the autumnal visage of his pleasance, where all things grew gaunt, wiry and sombre. A River So Long