plaisance

See also: Plaisance

English

Noun

plaisance (plural plaisances)

(obsolete) Pleasance (a pleasure ground laid out with shady walks, trees and shrubs, statuary, and ornamental water).

See also

Midway Plaisance on Wikipedia, a park on the South Side of the city of Chicago, Illinois

Anagrams

Asclepian, Pascaline, Plasencia, apsacline, caesalpin, snail pace, spalacine

Middle French

Noun

plaisance f (plural plaisances)

pleasure
want; desire

Old French

Etymology

From the stem plais- of the verb plaisir +‎ -ance.

Noun

plaisance f (oblique plural plaisances, nominative singular plaisance, nominative plural plaisances)

(chiefly in the singular) pleasure

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