plesance
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Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]plesance
- pleasance, pleasure
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Clerk's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 1035-1036:
- [...] ‘And so hope I that he wol to yow sende
Plesance y-nogh un-to your lyves ende.’- [...] ‘And so I hope that he will to you send
Pleasure enough unto your lives' end.’
- [...] ‘And so I hope that he will to you send
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Clerk's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 1035-1036:
References
[edit]- “plesance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.