payndemain Meaning, Definition & Usage

Payn`de*main" noun
Etymology
OF. pain bread + demaine manorial, lordly, own, private. See Payn, and Demesne. Said to be so called from the figure of our Lord impressed upon it.
Definitions
  1. The finest and whitest bread made in the Middle Ages; -- called also paynemain, payman. Obs.

Webster 1913