Category:Pleasance

Pleas"ance, n. Etym: [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.