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Plum-damas, -dames, n. Also: plumb-; plume-; plome- and -damais; -damus, -damous, -damis; -damesse, -dammes; -dalmais, -mes; -demais, -demus, -demis; (-dannes). Also: plum-damy; plumo damas. [Plum n. and Damas n. 2. Cf. Ploum(e)-damas.]Sometimes written as two words. Chiefly construed as a plur., and appar. regarded as plur. in form, hence the unetymological sing. plum-damy.
A damson plum. b. A dried plum; a prune.Also attrib.(1) 1558 Treas. Acc. X. 425.
Ane barrell of plumdames 1560 Ib. XI. 28.
Plumdannes 1565 Reg. Privy C. I. 360.
Plumdames, Ib. 33 Plumdamas 1569–70 Canongate Ct. Bk. 179. 1576 Edinb. Test. IV. 170 b.
Plumedalmais 1577 Reg. Privy C. II. 645.
Plum damus 1578 Edinb. Test. VI. iii.
Plumdemais 1580 Exch. R. XI. .
Plumdammes 1592 St. A. B. Ct. 10 Nov.
Plumdamis 1608 Reg. Privy C. VIII. 39.
Plume dalmes 1610–11 Aberd. Shore Wk. Acc. 64.
Ane bark from Dundie with iron and plumdamais set to 6 last and 5 barals 1621 Acts IV. 626/2.
That no persoun vse … at banqueting … feggis raisingis plumdames … and vther vnconfected fruittis 1634 Craven Ch. in Orkney II. 242.
1 stean plumdamis 30 s. 1650 Rec. Univ. Aberd. 594.
Plumdamesse 5 lib. 1667–8 Rec. Old Aberd. I. 217.
Plumdemus 1686 Red Bk. Menteith I. 415.
Plume demis 1692 Presb. Eloq. (1694) 80.
For thy own bairns Lord feed them with the plumdames and raisons of thy promises(b) 1597 Household Bks. Jas VI 27 Mar.
Plomedames 1612 Bk. Rates (Halyb.) 311.
Plomedames of Deip(c) 1589 St. A. B. Ct. 25 Apr.
Fywe barrellis off plumodamas(2) 1650 Brechin Presb. 37 (see Play n. 1 c).
Plumb damouses(3) 1665 Lauder Jrnl. 61.
The plume whilk they dry and make the plumdamy of Ib. 89.
The plumdamy, heir prunecuite, they dry so in a furnaceattrib. 1633 Edinb. Test. LVI. 206 b.
Ane plumdames pott 1663 Lamont Diary (1830) 168.
Ther was fownd in his intralls … a plume-dames stone
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