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And then they released him to do his plaisance, and he returned to his home in the tree hard by the arbor and there he sung unto those children more sweetly than ever before; for his heart was full of gratitude to our little Mistress Merciless and Master Sweetheart Now, of the dolls that she had in goodly number, that one which was named Beautiful did our little Mistress Merciless love best.

—The Holy Cross and Other Tales

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An obsolete form of pleasance. Plaisance, and joy, and a lively spirit, and a pleasant conversation, and the innocent caresses of a charitable humanity, is not forbidden. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 742.

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And then they released him to do his plaisance, and he returned to his home in the tree hard by the arbor and there he sung unto those children more sweetly than ever before; for his heart was full of gratitude to our little Mistress Merciless and Master Sweetheart Now, of the dolls that she had in goodly number, that one which was named Beautiful did our little Mistress Merciless love best. — The Holy Cross and Other Tales
He would come to her and she would go with him, freely and gladly, into new places where he could start all over again and—But even as she conjured up this sacrificial picture, this false plaisance, her cheeks grew hot with shame. — From the Housetops
Across a fair green plaisance, all seemly beset with flower and shrub, the wide doors of a church stood open. — New Faces
We are led into the dreamy atmosphere of haunted palace and beauteous plaisance: we glide in the picturesque imaginings of the oriental poet from the charm of all that is languorously seductive in nature into the shadowy realms of the supernatural. — Malayan Literature