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† Raines Obs.
Forms: α. 4–6 reynes, 5 raynez, -ys, raygnes, 5–6 raynes, 6 rein(e)s, Sc. rence, 6–7 rains, 6–8 raines. β. 5 rayne.
[f. Raynes, obs. f. Rennes: see def.
The place-name occurs in the form Raynes c 1460 in the Play Sacram. 107: also 1489 in Paston Lett. (1897) III. 358.]
1. cloth of Raine(s), a kind of fine linen or lawn made at Rennes in Brittany. Also with a or one: a piece of this.
c1369Chaucer Dethe Blaunche 255 Many a pelowe, and euery bere Of clothe of reynes. 14..Sqr. lowe Degre 842 Your shetes shall be of clothe of rayne. 1485in J. M. Cowper Churchw. Acc. St. Dunstan's, Canterbury p. xi, j cloth of raynez for the lectron. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 281 b, Clothed in purpull & cloth of reynes. 1558Morwyng Ben Gorion (1567) 61 Upon the beere was also a cloth of raynes.
b. Similarly with names of garments or other articles made of this cloth.
1395E.E. Wills (1882) 4 A peyre schetes of Reynes. a1400–50Alexander 1550 All samen of a soyte in surples of raynes. c1460J. Russell Bk. Nurture in Babees Bk. (1868) 130 Þan take a towaile of Raynes. 1560Rolland Crt. Venus i. 127 [A] noble seme was on his sark of Rence.
2. absol. = Cloth of Raines.
1526Tindale Luke xvi. 19 Clothed in purple, and fyne raynes. a1571Jewel On 2 Thess. (1611) 141 That great City that was clothed in reines, and scarlet, and purple. 1607J. Carpenter Plaine Mans Plough 26 The which in the Apocalips are called the pure raines of the Bride. 1721C. King Brit. Merch. I. 283 Boulteel Raines, 368 Pieces. |