Middle English Dictionary Entry
main-chẹ̄t n.
Entry Info
| Forms | main-chẹ̄t n. Also manchet(e, mainche, manǧed, mengid & mained, meined & (?AF) maincherin. |
| Etymology | Cp. demeine n.(3) & chẹ̄t; also, cp. (?AF) pain-man, var. of pain-demeine. Forms mained, meined are due to confusion with menǧed, meined, p.ppl. of menǧen. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
The finest kind of wheat bread [cp. pain-demeine]; ~ bred, ~ flour.
Associated quotations
- (1417) Doc.in Riley Mem.Lond.644 : [Other white loaves, that are called] painman, maincherin.
- a1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(1) (Hrl 279)43 : Þan take mengyd Flowre [Dc: Mayned flour] an draw þe Eyroun þorw a straynoure.
- c1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(2) (Hrl 4016)83 : Take meyned floure, and drawe the eiren and the floure thorgh a streynour.
- c1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(2) (Hrl 4016)83 : Take manged brede [Dc: maynche brede] or paynman, and kutte hit in leches.
- (1467) Acc.Howard in RC 57409 : My mastyr paid..for drynkenge pottes, glasses, and for manchett to have to the schippe, v s.
- a1475 Bk.Courtesy (Sln 1986)501 : To pantre he hyȝes be-lyue..Manchet and chet bred he shalle take.
- a1475 Bk.Courtesy (Sln 1986)627 : Of a lunden buschelle he shalle bake xx louys..Manchet and chet.
- a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sln 1986)p.53 : Þou tost shyves of gode manchete, Enbene hom with wyne.