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01 / Meaning & origin
Pleasance is a feminine given name documented in English. English Wiktionary traces it to Italian via Old French.
From an Old French female given name Plaisance, from plaisance (“pleasance”). The surname is partly matronymic, partly habitational from the Italian town of Piacenza.
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