Pleasance
/ˈplɛzəns/ name, noun
name, noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A pleasure ground laid out with shady walks, trees and shrubs, statuary, and ornamental water; a secluded part of a garden. countable, uncountable
"the pleasances of old Elizabethan houses"
- 2 a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience wordnet
- 3 Willingness to please, or the action of pleasing; courtesy. countable, obsolete, uncountable
- 4 a pleasant and secluded part of a garden; usually attached to a mansion wordnet
- 5 The feeling of being pleased; pleasure, delight. countable, obsolete, uncountable
"Now ſtands the Brere like a Loꝛd alone, / Puffed vp with pꝛyde and vaine pleaſaunce: […]"
Proper Noun
- 1 A female given name from French.
"Similarly, the verse at the close of Through the Looking Glass is an acrostic for Alice Pleasance Liddell."
- 2 A surname transferred from the given name.
Example
More examples"the pleasances of old Elizabethan houses"
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle English plaisaunce, plesaunce, from Old French plaisance. By surface analysis, please + -ance.
Etymology 2
From an Old French female given name Plaisance, from plaisance (“pleasance”). The surname is partly matronymic, partly habitational from the Italian town of Piacenza.