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Word entry · 9 letters

pleasance

Best crossword clue

"Garden retreat"

9 letters · collected on this word page

9 lettersPronunciation /ˈplɛzəns/Part of speech nounSorted aaceelnpsStarts with PEnds with E1 clues
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Definitions

  1. a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience

Word origin

From Middle English plaisaunce, plesaunce, from Old French plaisance. By surface analysis, please + -ance.

Used in a sentence

  • the pleasances of old Elizabethan houses
  • It is a tropical pleasance, washed by a noble river.
  • Now ſtands the Brere like a Loꝛd alone, / Puffed vp with pꝛyde and vaine pleaſaunce: […]

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