plaisance
See also: Plaisance
English edit
Noun edit
plaisance (plural plaisances)
- Obsolete form of pleasance (“pleasure ground”).
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 38–39:
- He wandered thoughtfully in the plaisance adjoining the house, planning, as we all plan, circumstances which never arrive; and framing speeches which, when the time comes, we never make.
See also edit
- Midway Plaisance on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French plaisance, Old French plaisance, by surface analysis, plaisant + -ance.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
plaisance f (plural plaisances)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “plaisance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
plaisance f (plural plaisances)
Old French edit
Etymology edit
From the stem plais- of the verb plaisir + -ance.
Noun edit
plaisance oblique singular, f (oblique plural plaisances, nominative singular plaisance, nominative plural plaisances)