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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1473-1508
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Plesance, -ans, n.2 [Late ME. and e.m.E. (kerchyef of) plesaunce (c 1420 and 1440), also plesantes, -auntes = Lumberdyne (a kind of black lawn) (a 1548), tentatively connected by OED. with Ital. Piacenza ‘a city of Emilia, now an important seat of textile industry’, f. L. placentia, see Plesancen.1 See however the quot. f. Clar. under Plesance n.1 6, which suggests that the earliest Eng. examples, of kerchyef of plesaunce, may properly belong to Plesance n.1 If so, Plesance n.2 may have its origin in a metonymic use of Plesancen.1]
A fine kind of gauze.1473 Treasurer's Accounts I. 72.
Item vj elne of plesance price elne iiij s. 1497–8 Acts Lords of Council II. 148.
He lowsit hir certan merchandice silk [= sik] as krysp, plesance and abilȝeament for hir persone 1501 Treasurer's Accounts II. 42. 1503 Reg. Soltre 158.
Item for courtingis of plesans aboue Our Lady heid and the freynyhes of silk 1503 Treasurer's Accounts II. 391.
For iiij elne plesance … tane to the grathing of the madin 1503–4 Ib. 417.
For ij elne plesance to ane table in the kingis oratour in Halyrudhous 1507 Ib. III. 259.
For ij elne plesance to be sleffis abone hir blak sleffis … for ix elne plesance to hir courch about hir arme xviij s. 1508 Ib. IV. 64.
For xxj elne plesance to hir courchis at divers tymes
