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cloth of Rennes

, cloth + of + Rennes.
Searchable Lemmata: pannus de Rems (L), cloth (ME), cloth of Raines (MdE).
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    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(n.) Textile; good quality linen cloth made in or associated with Rennes in Brittany, used for pillowcases, ecclesiastical albs and amices and probably for matching apparels, stoles and fanons, which could be embroidered and jewelled.
1. Of down of pure dowves white I wil yive hym a fether-bed, Rayed with gold ... ryght wel cled In fyn blak satyn doutremer ... And many a pilowe, and every ber Of cloth of Reynes Poetic. [MED Chaucer BD ((Benson-Robinson) 252-255) circa 1450]
c.f.: Raines
ME, MdE.
Sex: N/A    Status: High    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.

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