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Webster 1913 Edition

Payndemain

Paynˊde-main′

,

Noun.

[OF.

pain

bread +

demaine

manorial, lordly, own, private. See

, and

. Said to be so called from the figure of our Lord impressed upon it.]

The finest and whitest bread made in the Middle Ages; – called also

paynemain

,

payman

.

[Obs.]