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raines

UK/ɹeɪnz/

raines is the plural of raine.

Noun capitalized: Raines

Raines (uncountable)

  1. (historical) A type of fine linen once imported from France.
    • There was a certayne riche man, which was clothed in purple, and fine raynes, and fared deliciously every daye.1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Luke

Proper noun capitalized: Raines

Raines

  1. A surname.

Origin of raines

From Anglo-Norman Reins, Middle French Reins, variant of Reims, the French town where the fabric was originally produced.

Questions about raines

What does raines mean?
Raines means a type of fine linen once imported from France.
What is raines the plural of?
Raines is the plural of raine.
What part of speech is raines?
Raines can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce raines?
Raines is pronounced /ɹeɪnz/ (UK).

Words near raines in the dictionary

  1. rainer
  2. Raineri
  3. Raineris
  4. rainers
  5. Rainert
  6. raines
  7. rainest
  8. raineth
  9. rainette green
  10. Rainey
  11. Rainey's corpuscle

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Adapted from Wiktionary: raines (page history and authors); Raines (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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