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Pasi-, Passa-, Pessiment, varr. of Pasment n.1 (Cf. also Pasimentit ppl. a.) — 1593 Lennox Mun. 463.
Any clething … that salbe ony wys begaried, laid ower, or smered with ony kynd of pasimentis greit or small [etc.] 1598–9 Aberd. Sheriff Ct. I. 385.
Pessiments 1619 Ritchie Ch. S. Baldred 116.
He had broun claiths and black passaments on him
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