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pleasancen.1  Brit.  /ˈplɛz(ə)ns/, U.S. /ˈplɛz(ə)ns/ (in sense 5) Scottish English /ˈpliz(ə)ns/Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French pleisance, plaisance. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman pleisance, pleisaunce, pleissaunce, plesaunce and Anglo-Norman and Middle French plaisance, plaisaunce, plesance (French plaisance (now rare or literary)) pleasure, delight (late 13th cent.), pleasantness, charm (first half of the 14th cent. or earlier), wish, desire (mid 14th cent. or earlier) < plaisant , pleisant , etc. pleasant adj.; compare -ance , -aunce -ance suffix. In sense 1a (which is apparently not paralleled in French) probably after classical Latin placentia agreeable quality, complaisance (2nd cent. a.d.), in post-classical Latin also pleasure (c1200, 1437 in British sources), will, decision (13th cent.; < placent- , placēns (see placent adj.) + -ia -y suffix3). Compare Old Occitan plazensa, plazenza (c1150; Occitan plasença), Italian †piacenza (end of the 12th cent.).The β forms result from reanalysis of the word as if a plural of pleasant adj.; compare also the following Middle English examples, which apparently show an inferred singular: c1450 C. d'Orleans Poems (1941) 109 In hir he shalle se so gret and hvug larges Of plesaunt..That hit wol brynge any hert into gladnes.?c1500 Mary Magdalene (Digby) 648 Seyth..al þe plesawnt of your mynd. With sense 5 compare Middle French plaisance place of delight, pleasure ground (1556, rare) and earlier pleasure n. 3b. †1. the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > [noun] > agreeable behaviour c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring (1891) cxviii. 108 (MED) Make, Lord, þe wilful þinges of mi mouþe in gode plesaunce [L. beneplacita]. ?1387 T. Wimbledon (Corpus Cambr.) (1967) 121 (MED) Þe dewellis mynistris..in þat tyme schulleþ, in plesaunce of here lord Anticrist, stoppe þe foure wyndes. c1390 G. Chaucer 409 Som for plesance of folk and flaterye To been auanced by ypocrisye. 1399 in J. L. Fisher (1968) 27/2 Plesaunce, [special subsidy for the king]. ?1435 ( J. Lydgate (1934) ii. 638 (MED) To done plesaunce vnto his Magestee, A tabernacle surmountyng off beaute Ther was ordeyned. c1460 (?c1400) 1675 (MED) I wold do hym plesaunce, in al that evir I can, ffor trewlich in his contray he is a worshipful man. c1500 (c1440) C. d'Orleans (1941) App. 225 (MED) Ye hold with her aliauns That somtym with word of plesauns Desceyued you vnder couert. a1513 J. Irland Meroure of Wyssdome f. 355, in at Plesance He..is abill for plesans of him to condiscend to the sammyn. 1569 R. Grafton II. 398 Manye Noble men were compelled to pay vnto the king great sommes of money, which was called Pleasaunce, to please the king withall. 1572 (a1500) (1882) 910 To tell him as I haue tauld the, Withoutin plesance. 1600 B. Jonson iv. v. sig. O Content: good Sir vouchsafe vs your pleasance . View more context for this quotation the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > jest or pleasantry > a jest or joke the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > mischievous or practical joking > [noun] > instance of 1668 J. Glanvill 146 Fancy may be permitted its plaisance, and in-offensive raileries. 1681 J. Scott iv. 366 Those little Plaisances and inoffensive Raileries of Fancy which are somtimes requisite to sauce our Conversation. 1873 E. J. Brennan 178 Isis, she Who with her myriad plesances and wiles Chafes the unbloomed desire of Egypt's maids. the mind > will > wish or inclination > [noun] a1382 (Bodl. 959) 1 Esdras x. 11 Now ȝyueþ confessioun to þe lord god of oure fadres & doþ þe plesaunce [a1425 L.V. pleasaunce; L. placitum] of hym. c1395 G. Chaucer 305 I neither may ne kan Lenger the plesance of myn herte hyde... Thy doghter wol I take. c1425 J. Lydgate (Augustus A.iv) i. 2552 (MED) Lady..I am assented..For to fulfille..What þat euer may be to ȝow plesaunce. c1449 R. Pecock (1860) 393 (MED) A curat..his lijflode schulde not hange upon her plesaunce oonli. ?c1450 tr. (1906) 29 (MED) The plesaunce of all goode women aught to be to uisite and fede the pore. a1500 W. Hilton Mixed Life (Royal) in G. G. Perry (1921) 23 In the turnynge of thi will enterely to his seruyce and his plesaunce. a1500 ( (Egerton) (1953) ii. xxvi. f. 46 (MED) I went nought from the, nor þat I myght do myn owne pleasaunce. 1530 sig. A.vi To doo his office to the plesaunce of god. 1568 A. Scott (1896) 30 Do with my hairt ȝour hairtis sweit plesance. the mind > emotion > pleasure > [noun] c1385 G. Chaucer 1925 In the temple of Venus maystow se Wroght on the wal..Pleance and hope, desir, [etc.]. a1393 J. Gower (Fairf.) vii. 789 (MED) Wher he may finde Plesance of love, his herte boweth. a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer (1987) iv. 1099 In love there come and gon plesaunces. 1490 W. Caxton tr. xviii. 67 Yf thou euer toke playsance in ony thyng that by me cam. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart I. cclix. 384 The Englysshemen toke great pleasaunce at theyr valiant dedes. c1550 (1830) v. 1546 That for to sie it was ane grit pleasance. 1589 R. Greene (Arb.) 17 The chiefe supporter of pleasance nowe liuing. 1614 W. Browne i. sig. B4v On a day to him befell this chance, With a woman, a morsell of pleasance By the streetes of the Vniuersity. 1710 A. Philips ii. 97 Untoward Lads, who Pleasance take in Spite. 1794 S. T. Coleridge Pantisocracy in (1912) I. 69 And see the rising Sun, and feel it dart New rays of pleasance trembling to the heart. 1814 Ld. Byron (ed. 7) ii. lxxviii. 108 Some days of joyaunce are decreed to all, To take of pleasaunce each his secret share. 1830 Ld. Tennyson ii When my passion seeks Pleasance in love-sighs. 1866 H. W. Longfellow iii Beautiful lily,..born to joy and pleasance, Thou dost not toil nor spin. 1885 R. F. Burton tr. I. xiv. 139 Know, O my lady, that..my fleet numbered fifty merchantmen, and as many yachts for pleasance. 4. the mind > emotion > pleasure > quality of being pleasant or pleasurable > [noun] > source of pleasure c1390 G. Chaucer 276 Ye, my moder, my souereyn plesaunce..youre child hir recomaundeth ofte Vnto youre grace. a1393 J. Gower (Fairf.) i. 1499 (MED) To som womman it is plesance, That to an oþre is grevance. 1440 J. Capgrave (1977) l. 230 These wordly plesaunses ar fals & onstable. 1485 W. Caxton tr. (1957) 45 Oute of al Ioyes and playsaunses worldly. a1500 Craft of Deyng (Cambr. Kk.1.5) in R. Girvan (1939) 171 To leif his gret riches..his wyf and barnis and sik othir plesans. 1619 W. Sclater (iv. 9) 301 As when..a father [shows] nuts and such like pleasances to his child. 1812 Ld. Byron i. xxiii. 19 How Vain are the pleasaunces on earth supplied. 1930 T. S. Eliot tr. ‘St.-J. Perse’ 49 We shall not dwell forever in these yellow lands, our pleasance [Fr. délice]. 2000 (Nexis) 14 May (Features section) 1 You can bask in its pleasances without getting sucked in. the mind > emotion > pleasure > quality of being pleasant or pleasurable > [noun] c1395 G. Chaucer 917 The odour of floures and the fresshe sighte Wolde han maked any herte lighte..So ful it was of beautee and plesaunce. c1425 J. Lydgate (Augustus A.iv) ii. 4627 (MED) Nestor..Whos wordis werne sugrid with plesaunce..of his trouþe he ne koude feyne. c1450 J. Capgrave (1910) 6 (MED) Monicha was neuyr put in no blame, so redy was hir paciens, so besi was hir plesauns. ?c1500 (Digby) 1304 A, welcum masenger of grett pleȝeavns! a1513 W. Dunbar (1998) I. 164 For to discryve the ros of most plesance. c1540 (?a1400) 3331 Parys with pleasaunce apperit. 1590 E. Spenser i. iv. sig. D5 With pleasaunce of the breathing fields yfed. 1611 J. Speed ix. viii. 487/1 Deseruedly for the pleasance of the place, named Beaulieu. 1666 M. Wigglesworth 9 Their countenance full of pleasance. 1748 J. Thomson i. xxvii It was a fountain of Nepenthe rare, Whence, as Dan Homer sings, huge pleasaunce grew. 1830 Ld. Tennyson Recoll. Arab. Nights x, in 54 Thence through the garden I was borne—A realm of pleasance. 2004 (Nexis) 23 Aug. 14 Motionless togetherness is what I want with you The pleasure of your pleasance. the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > [noun] > pleasure garden 1509 Edinb. Hammermen f. 65, in at Plesance At Plesance. 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay iv. xxiii. 139 Diuers gardens and pleasaunces, planted with Orange trees. c1600 (1825) 94 The gunnis war transportit to a fauxburg of the toun [sc. Edinburgh] callit Pleasands. 1767 9 May A house called Southfield House..standing by itself with an entry from the Pleasance. 1821 W. Scott III. i. 14 The window..commanded a delightful view of what was called the Pleasance; a space of ground inclosed and decorated with arches, trophies, statues, fountains, and other architectural monuments. 1847 E. Warwick (title) The poets' pleasaunce or garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers. 1888 A. J. C. Hare Jrnl. 3 Dec. in (1900) VI. xxv. 161 A charming old pleasaunce with bowling-green and long grass walks. 1893 R. L. Stevenson viii. 87 Hope Park, a beautiful pleasance..warded by a keeper. 1903 J. M. Falkner xvi. 239 The mind is a flowery pleasance where shade refreshes even in summer droughts. 1954 A. Seton I. iii. 44 She breathed deep of the soft air and followed the singing voices to the walled pleasaunce behind the eastern state apartments. 1987 P. Conrad iii. 261 Esterháza is one of the eighteenth century's engineered and unsatisfactory pleasances, and Haydn's opera actually records that idyll's failure. 1993 Aug. 43/1 A vast, seventeenth-century pleasaunce which admirably sets off large scale sculpture in landscape. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † pleasancen.2Origin: Of uncertain origin. Etymology: Origin uncertain. N.E.D.(1907) suggests a derivation < Plaisance (1451 or earlier), the French name of Piacenza ( < classical Latin Placentia ), ‘a city of Emilia, now an important seat of textile industry (silk, cotton, etc.)’; however, no secure evidence for an origin of the fabric in Piacenza has been found. Perhaps compare Middle French plaisance male garment (1452 or earlier), part of women's attire (1544, Lorraine), but these are first attested later, and it is unclear whether they were made of the gauzelike fabric; it is more likely that they represent transferred uses of plaisance pleasance n.1, and this has also been suggested as the etymology of the English word.The β. forms apparently result from reanalysis as a plural form of pleasant adj. Obsolete. the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from flax, hemp, or jute > [noun] > linen > types of > fine > lawn > types of 1426 in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Var. Coll. (1914) VII. 332 in (Cd. 6722) XXVI. 1 ij. plyces de plesaunce. 1440 R. Repps in (2004) II. 22 A knyght out of Spayne wyth a kerchieff of plesaunce j-wrapped aboute hys arme. c1450 C. d'Orleans (1941) 160 (MED) About hir wast a kercher of plesaunce. 1473 in T. Dickson (1877) I. 72 Item vj elne of plesance, price elne iiij s. 1503 in D. Laing (1861) 158 For iiij elne plesance. 1509 S. Hawes (1928) 5429 Though be cladde with clothes of pleasaunce Very erthe and also wormes fode Whan erthe to erthe shall to tourne the blode. 1548 f. vii Two ladyes..in kyrtels of Crymosyne..and ouer their garmentes were vochettes of pleasantes,..their heades rouled in pleasauntes and typpets lyke the Egipcians, enbroudered with golde. Their faces, neckes, armes & handes, couered in fyne pleasaunce blacke: Some call it Lumberdynes, which is marueylous thine, so that thesame ladies semed to be nygrost [sic] or blacke Mores. c1550 (1830) i. 891 Unto hir..present..This courche of plesance saying.., Scho wan it at the tornament in Spaine. 1594 C. Marlowe & T. Nashe i. i Whenas I..held the cloth of pleasance whiles you drank. 1801 J. Strutt iii. ii. 125 (note) Pleasaunce was a fine thin species of gauze, which was striped with gold. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2021). <  n.1c1350 n.21426 |