PLEASANT

PLEASANT. The original Mr. Pleasant was possessed, I doubt not, of the attributes by which Cotgrave defines the Fr. Avord plaisant: he Avas " merrie, jocond, blythe, joyful), buxome, delightfull, gamesome, recreative, and perhaps also jeasting, bourding, scoffing, and floAvting."

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.