pleasance Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a pleasant and secluded part of a garden; usually attached to a mansion
  2. noun a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience
    pleasure.
    • he was tingling with pleasure

WordNet

Pleas"ance noun
Etymology
F. plaisance. See Please.
Definitions
  1. Pleasure; merriment; gayety; delight; kindness. Archaic Shak. "Full great pleasance." Chaucer. "A realm of pleasance." Tennyson.
  2. A secluded part of a garden. Archaic
    The pleasances of old Elizabethan houses. Ruskin.

Webster 1913