payndemain

== English == === Etymology === From Latin panis domini, lord's bread. === Noun === payndemain (uncountable) A high-quality white bread, baked from the finest sifted flour, suitable for the lord of the manor. 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 certaynHe hadde a semely nose. ==== Alternative forms ==== pandemain