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Quotation dates: 1490
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(Pin-,) Pyn-hwd, n. [Pin n.1 3, or ? Pin v. 1, and Hude n.1] ? ‘The hood attached to a cloak, and fitted to be drawn over the hat or bonnet of the wearer’ (Jam.). — 1490 Treasurer's Accounts I. 187.
ij elne sattin to lyne the cap of that cloyke and to be a pyn hwd
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