Pleas"ance (?), n. [F. plaisance. See Please.]
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.