pleasance

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pleas=ance

CIDE DICTIONARY

pleasance, n. [F. plaisance. See Please.].

•  Pleasure; merriment; gayety; delight; kindness.  [1913 Webster]
•  A secluded part of a garden.  [1913 Webster]

  "The pleasances of old Elizabethan houses."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

pleasance, n. a secluded enclosure or part of a garden, esp. one attached to a large house.

Etymology

ME f. OF plaisance (as PLEASANT)

THESAURUS

pleasance

affability, agreeability, agreeableness, amenity, amiability, amicability, bliss, blissfulness, common, commons, compatibility, complaisance, congeniality, cordiality, enjoyableness, felicitousness, geniality, goodliness, goodness, graciousness, gratefulness, harmoniousness, mellifluousness, mellowness, niceness, paradise, park, pleasantness, pleasantry, pleasingness, pleasurability, pleasurableness, pleasure, pleasure garden, pleasure ground, pleasurefulness, public park, rapport, sweetness, sweetness and light, welcomeness