"pleasaunce" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈplɛz(ə)ns/ Forms: pleasaunces [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛzəns Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} pleasaunce (countable and uncountable, plural pleasaunces)
  1. Alternative form of pleasance Tags: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable Alternative form of: pleasance
    Sense id: en-pleasaunce-en-noun-rt~L63jF Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1858, William Morris, Sir Galahad:",
          "text": "No maid will talk / Of sitting on my tomb, until the leaves, / Grown big upon the bushes of the walk, / East of the Palace-pleasaunce, make it hard / To see the minster therefrom […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1891, Oscar Wilde, “The Young King”, in A House of Pomegranates, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine & Co […], →OCLC, page 18:",
          "text": "And he looked in the mirror, and, seeing his own face, he gave a great cry and woke, and the bright sunlight was streaming into the room, and from the trees of the garden and pleasaunce the birds were singing.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1904, Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Land of the Blue Flower:",
          "text": "King Amor planted the seed in a pleasaunce of its own. It grew into the most beautiful blue flower the world had ever known.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "ref": "1928, Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography, London: The Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished as Orlando: A Biography (eBook no. 0200331h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, July 2015:",
          "text": "It must be remembered that she was like a child, entering into possession of a pleasaunce or toycupboard; her arguments would not commend themselves to mature women, who have had the run of it all their lives.",
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          "ref": "1858, William Morris, Sir Galahad:",
          "text": "No maid will talk / Of sitting on my tomb, until the leaves, / Grown big upon the bushes of the walk, / East of the Palace-pleasaunce, make it hard / To see the minster therefrom […]",
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        {
          "ref": "1904, Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Land of the Blue Flower:",
          "text": "King Amor planted the seed in a pleasaunce of its own. It grew into the most beautiful blue flower the world had ever known.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "ref": "1928, Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography, London: The Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished as Orlando: A Biography (eBook no. 0200331h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, July 2015:",
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