Definition of "placent" []

• A cake. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "St Thomas Aquinas famously said that “pulchra enim dicuntur quae visa placent”, ‘beautiful things are those which please when seen’."
• "In Latin. magnae clunes mihi placent, nec possum de hac re mentiri."
• "Parmenidean imagination in the haunting fear, then current, of petrification in various forms: the com - placent evocation of a dried-up earth reduced to a skeleton or rock, caught in a shroud of ice or salt."