Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
pleasance .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
pleasance .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete
Pleasance (a pleasure ground laid out with shady walks, trees and shrubs, statuary, and ornamental water).
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Examples
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The herald called out, “His Majesty the King has just entered the list and will now joust, à la plaisance, with Sir Henry Norris.”
The Tudors: King Takes Queen Elizabeth Massie 2010
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The herald called out, “His Majesty the King has just entered the list and will now joust, à la plaisance, with Sir Henry Norris.”
The Tudors: King Takes Queen Elizabeth Massie 2010
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The herald called out, “His Majesty the King has just entered the list and will now joust, à la plaisance, with Sir Henry Norris.”
The Tudors: King Takes Queen Elizabeth Massie 2010
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Miss Cantillon, who was within hearing of this, and had seemed to be highly taken with the baro-net, could hardly let her eyes be civil to me; and yet her really pretty mouth, occasionally, worked it-self into forced smiles, and an affectation of com — plaisance.
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Dropping the flap he ran along toward where the plaisance terminated at the lake and a small ferris wheel revolved slowly against the sky.
Tender is the Night 2003
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Quixote of La Mancha, is in this your castle, for she has come in quest of him on foot and without breaking her fast from the kingdom of Kandy to your realms here; a thing which may and ought to be regarded as a miracle or set down to enchantment; she is even now at the gate of this fortress or plaisance, and only waits for your permission to enter.
Don Quixote 2002
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Blondel, De la distribution de maisons de plaisance … Paris, 1737-38.
Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983
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E Blondel, De la distribution de maisons de plaisance… Paris, 1737-38.
Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983
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Blondel, De la distribution de maisons de plaisance … Paris, 1737-38.
Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983
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E Blondel, De la distribution de maisons de plaisance… Paris, 1737-38.
Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983
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