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A pleasure ground laid out with shady walks, trees and shrubs, statuary, and ornamental water; a secluded part of a garden. quotations examples
the pleasances of old Elizabethan houses
1859, John Ruskin, The Two Paths
It is a tropical pleasance, washed by a noble river.
1924 June 4, E[dward] M[organ] Forster, A Passage to India, London: Edward Arnold & Co.
(obsolete) Willingness to please, or the action of pleasing; courtesy.
(obsolete) The feeling of being pleased; pleasure, delight. quotations
Now stands the Brere like a lord alone, / Puffed up with pryde and vaine pleasaunce.
1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […]; reprinted as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, The Shepheardes Calender […], London: John C. Nimmo, […], 1890, folio 6, verso