pleasance
NounSynonyms:
pleasure
Open English WordNet
Noun (2)
- a pleasant and secluded part of a garden; usually attached to a mansionType of retreat
- a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience“he was tingling with pleasure”Synonyms: pleasureOpposite painType of feelingKinds delight, enjoyment, comfort, sexual pleasure, pleasantness
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Pleas′ance noun
Origin: F. plaisance. See Please.
1. Pleasure; merriment; gayety; delight; kindness. archaic William Shakespeare “Full great pleasance.” Geoffrey Chaucer “A realm of pleasance.” Alfred Tennyson
2. A secluded part of a garden. archaic
The pleasances of old Elizabethan houses.— John Ruskin
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54