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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)
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