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Pleasance
Pleasance meaning
A pleasure ground laid out with shady walks, trees and shrubs, statuary, and ornamental water; a secluded part of a garden. | Willingness to please, or the action of pleasing; courtesy. | The feeling of being pleased; pleasure, delight.
Example sentences (9)
The cast of A Comedy of Operas get into character ahead of their Edinburgh Festival Fringe show at the Pleasance at EICC.
Writer and director David, who wrote the script five years ago, put on his version of the Trainspotting sequel at the Pleasance venue in the capital to sell-out shows last August, with Welsh himself flying in to watch.
Shepherd Chartered Surveyors, which is conducting the auction, emphasised the police box, on The Pleasance in Edinburgh, is being sold as a “moveable item”.
It’s no surprise that the Pleasance bags some of the best – its sister venue in Edinburgh is one of the main venues for Fringe performances.
John Kearns, Sara Pascoe, Lou Sanders, Mae Martin, and Nish Kumar are all on the bill at tonight's Gala for World AIDS Day, which brings a wealth of comedy talent to the Pleasance Theatre, raising money for the National AIDS Trust.
David Pleasance, managing director of Commodore UK, citation described the A600 as a 'complete and utter screw-up'.
Henry V also used Kenilworth extensively, but preferred to stay in the Pleasance, the mock castle he had built on the other side of the Great Mere.
Surrounded by two diamond-shaped moats with its own dock, the Pleasance was positioned on the far side of the Great Mere and had to be reached by boat.
The Pleasance was eventually dismantled by Henry VIII and partially moved into the left-hand court inside the castle itself, possibly to add to the anachronistic appearance.