Definition of "pleasaunce" [pleasaunce]

• Obsolete form of pleasance. (noun)
• A pleasure-garden; a region of garden with the sole purpose of giving pleasure to the senses, but not offering fruit or sustenance. (noun)

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• "At present it serves the State at least as usefully, being the "pleasaunce" of the people for miles around, who come here freely to walk and drive."
• "I sighed for the Iberian 'Zarzuela,' that most charming _opera buffa_ which takes its name from a 'pleasaunce' in the Pardo Palace near Madrid."
• "The Caliph Harun al-Rashid loved the Lady Zubaydah with exceeding love and laid out for her a pleasaunce, wherein he made a great tank and set thereabouts a screen of trees and led thither water from all sides; hence the trees grew and interlaced over the basin so densely, that one could go in and wash, without being seen of any, for the thickness of the leafage."