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payndemain

payndemain noun: a high-quality white bread, baked from the finest sifted flour, suitable for the lord of the manor.

Noun

payndemain (uncountable)

  1. A high-quality white bread, baked from the finest sifted flour, suitable for the lord of the manor.
    • And for the milling of one quarter of wheat, 4d. And for payndemain [fine bread] bought, 5d.1996, A. R. Myers, English Historical Documents 1327-1485, page 702
    • 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 certayn1914, Charles Sears Baldwin (quoting Geoffrey Chaucer, An Introduction to English Medieval Literature, p. 215

Forms of payndemain

alternative formpandemain

Origin of payndemain

From Latin panis domini, lord's bread.

Questions about payndemain

What does payndemain mean?
Payndemain means a high-quality white bread, baked from the finest sifted flour, suitable for the lord of the manor.
What part of speech is payndemain?
Payndemain is a noun.

Words near payndemain in the dictionary

  1. paymeters
  2. paymistress
  3. paymistresses
  4. Paymon
  5. paynantheine
  6. payndemain
  7. payne
  8. Payne County
  9. Payne effect
  10. Payne effects
  11. Payne's gray

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