pleasance : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: pleasance	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for pleasance
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pleasance n a pleasant and secluded part of a garden; usually attached to a mansion a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience; "he was tingling with pleasure" Synonym(s): pleasure, pleasance Antonym(s): pain, painfulness
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pleasance \Pleas"ance\, n. [F. plaisance. See {Please}.] 1. Pleasure; merriment; gayety; delight; kindness. [Archaic] --Shak. [bd]Full great pleasance.[b8] --Chaucer. [bd]A realm of pleasance.[b8] --Tennyson. 2. A secluded part of a garden. [Archaic] The pleasances of old Elizabethan houses. --Ruskin.