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Pleasance

//ˈplɛzəns// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 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. 2
    A surname transferred from the given name.
Noun
  1. 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. 2
    a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience wordnet
  3. 3
    Willingness to please, or the action of pleasing; courtesy. countable, obsolete, uncountable
  4. 4
    a pleasant and secluded part of a garden; usually attached to a mansion wordnet
  5. 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: […]"

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.

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