The Collaborative International Dictionary
Plaisance \Plai`sance"\, n. [F.] See Pleasance.
Wiktionary
n. (context obsolete English) pleasance (a pleasure ground laid out with shady walks, trees and shrubs, statuary, and ornamental water).
Wikipedia
Plaisance is a station on line Line 13 of the Paris Métro in the 14th arrondissement.
The station opened on 21 January 1937 as part of the original line 14 between Bienvenüe and Porte de Vanves. This line became part of line 13 on 9 November 1976. The station is named after the Château du Maine which was built in the 17th century and possessed an immense park. The word "plaisance" is equivalent to the English "pleasance", that is a pleasure garden. It was purchased in 1842 by a surveyor called Couesnon whose son subdivided it, creating the district of Plaisance between 1858 and 1860, which became one of the largest slums of Paris. The Compagnie générale des omnibus (a major 19th century operator of horse buses and later trams and motor buses) razed the castle to build garages.
Plaisance is a French word, meaning pleasantness, derived from the Latin placentia 'acceptable things'.
The name Plaisance may refer to:
People
- Plaisance of Antioch (1235–1261), sometimes also referred to as Plaisance of Cyprus or Plaisance of Poitiers
Locations in Europe
- Neuilly-Plaisance, in the Seine-Saint-Denis département in France
- Plaisance, a district in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, France
- Plaisance, Aveyron, in the Aveyron département in France
- Plaisance, Dordogne, in the Dordogne département in France
- Plaisance, Gers, in the Gers département in France
- Plaisance, Vienne, in the Vienne département in France
- Plaisance-du-Touch, in the Haute-Garonne département in France
- Plasencia, Spain
- Piacenza, Italy
- Plaisance, Guernsey, Channel Islands
- Plaisance, Sark, Channel Islands
Locations in the Americas
- Plaisance, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
- Beards Plaisance , Minneapolis Minnesota, a park in the USA
- Plaisance, Nord, a town in the Nord department of Haiti
- Plaisance, Quebec, a village in Western Quebec
- Plaisance-du-Sud, a town in the Nippes department of Haiti
- Plaisance, a town in St. Landry Parish of Louisiana
- Midway Plaisance, a park in Chicago
- Plaisance, a community in Guyana
Locations in Africa
- Plaisance, Seychelles, an administrative district on the island of Mahé
- Plaisance, Mauritius, the location of Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport in Mauritius.
Usage examples of "plaisance".
Two underworld friends get Blass drunk one night and put him to bed in his room at the Manoir de Plaisance Hotel, near Saint-Hippolyte, 45 miles north of Montreal.
Just Northeast Of The Seine, Beyond The Half-Kilometer- Long Le Port De Plaisance De Paris De 1'Arsenal-A Canal For Recreational Boating-Is A Region Rich With Something A Little Different: Post Offices.
The parkway a hundred yards north of us, stretching from Washington Park to Jackson Park and called the Midway Plaisance, was in fact a midway the last time I had seen it, with everything from Little Egypt's belly dance to pink cotton candy.
The parkway a hundred yards north of us, stretching from Washington Park to Jackson Park and called the Midway Plaisance, was in fact a midway the last time I had seen it, with everything from Little Egypt’.