payndemain

Etymology
From panis domini, lord's bread.

Noun

 * 1) A high-quality white bread, baked from the finest sifted flour, suitable for the lord of the manor.
 * 2) * 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.
 * 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.