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payndemain

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin panis domini, lord's bread.

Noun

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payndemain (uncountable)

  1. 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    • 1996, A. R. Myers, English Historical Documents 1327-1485, page 702: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.

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