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plaisance1
plural plaisances
- obsoleteObsolete form of pleasance (“pleasure ground”).
He wandered thoughtfully in the plaisance adjoining the house, planning, as we all plan, circumstances which never arrive; and framing speeches which, when the time comes, we never make.
1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 38–39
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