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Payndemain
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payndemain
payndemain
English
Noun
payndemain (uncountable)
- A high-quality white bread, baked from the finest sifted flour, suitable for the lord of the manor.
- 1996, A. R. Myers, English Historical Documents 1327-1485, p. 702:
- And for the milling of one quarter of wheat, 4d. And for payndemain [fine bread] bought, 5d.
- 1914, Charles Sears Baldwin (quoting Geoffrey Chaucer, An Introduction to English Medieval Literature, p. 215:
- Sir Thopas wex a doghty swayn.
Whyt was his face as payndemain,
His lippes rede as rose.
His rode is lyk scarlet in grayn,
And I yow telle in good certayn
He hadde a semely nose.
- Sir Thopas wex a doghty swayn.
- 1996, A. R. Myers, English Historical Documents 1327-1485, p. 702: