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† demeine Obs. Also demayn, -demaine. [Short for pain-demaine, AF. pain demeine, L. panis dominicus, i.e. ‘Lord's bread’: see demesne.] Bread of the finest quality.
1288Liber Albus (Rolls) I. 353 Panis dominicus qui dicitur demeine ponderabit wastellum quadrantis. c1420Anturs of Arth. xxxvii, Thre soppus of demayn..For to cumford his brayne. 1859Riley Liber Albus (Rolls) I. p. lxvii, The very finest white bread, it would seem, was that known as Demeine or lords' bread. |