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Pas-, Pesmentit, -ed, p.p. and ppl. a. Also: pase-, pass(e)-. [f. Pasment n.1 or Pasment v.: also Pasimentit.] Trimmed or edged with passement(s). Also fig.(1) 1538 Treas. Acc. VI. 397.
Ane goune … lynyt … and pasmentit
1578 Inv. Wardrobe 219.
Ane heich nekit lang taillit gowne … pasmentit ower the body
1590 Crail B. Ct. MS. 25 Aug.
Ane cloke … pasmentit round about
1603 Philotus xxx. 1619 Edinb. Test. L. 263 b.
Gluifis for men pasmentit and freinȝeit
a1651 Calderwood VII. 494.
The footmantle … was onlie of cloth pasmented [etc.]
(b) 15.. Crawford Mun. Invent. II. 184.
The bodyis of my blak velvet gon that is pesmentit
1624 Brechin Test. IV. 139.
Ane gowne of black growgraine silk pesmentit
1634 Aberd. Sheriff Ct. II. 424.(2) 1557 Aberd. Sheriff Ct. I. 155.
Ane blew coit pasmentit with silk
1561 Inv. Wardrobe 146.
The quhite velvois bed pasmentit with gold and violett silk
1567 Anderson Collect. Mary II. 174.
Pasementit
1578 Inv. Wardrobe 224, etc.
Ane skirt … pasmentit with small cordonis of reid silk & silver
1586 Treas. Acc. MS. 122 b.
Sex … beltis pasmentit with reid and ȝallow
1595 Edinb. Test. XXVIII. 195 b.
Dressit gluiffis … pasmentit at the heid with gold
1598 Black Bk. Taymouth 324. 1600 Treas. Acc. MS. 86 b (see Mule n.2 (d)). c1610 Melville Mem. 116.
Passemented
1629 Boyd Last B. 230.
Ashamed to bee seene among these who are pasmented with gold
1714 Banff Ann. I. 185.
Ane large coat of the town's livrie pesmented with white pesments
(3) fig. 1640 Rutherford Lett. (1891) 580.
Your cross is … passmented over with the faith and comforts of the Lord's faithful covenant
(4) 1568 Edinb. Test. 212 b.
vj dosane pasmentit gluffis for wemen

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