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Pand, n.¹ Also: paund; pan; paun. [Cf. OF. pante (1497 in Godef.), pente, and OF. pandre (F. pendre) v. to hang. Only Sc. Cf. also Pend.] A valance.Also curtene pand (Courtene n. 1 b), a piece (of) pand.a. A piece of drapery or a short hanging suspended from the canopy over a bed, throne, etc. b. A short curtain suspended from the framework of a bed. (See also subpand, underpand.)(1) 1561 Inv. Q. Mary 18.
A claith of estait … furnissit [with] ruif and taill, thre pandis all frenyeit with threidis of gold and reid silk Ib. 19. Ib. 30; etc.
Thre single pandis 1573 Inv. Wardrobe 183.
Ane bed of blak velvot with thre courtingis and pandis of the same 1578 Ib. 205.
Ane da of crammosie velvot … contening the rufe of the heid pece and thre double pandis 1598 Black Bk. Taymouth 323.
Off courtingis … conteining four peces with rufe and pand round about the bed 1610 Edinb. Test. XLVI. 121 b. 1615 Haddington Mem. II. 289.
Courteines … with ane reid brodered pand of two peices Ib. 291.
Ane pand of pirnit stuff in ane peice 1619 Edinb. Test. L. 217. 1623 Brechin Test. IV. 111 b. 1630 Bamff Chart. 223. 1632 Inv. Newark 2 a.
Ane sad reid browderit pand in thre peices 1635 Haddington Mem. II. 300. 1640 Black Bk. Taymouth 349. 1654 Glasgow B. Rec. II. 297. 1658 Boyd Fam. P. No. 236 (27 Feb.).
Yellow curtingis with ane pand with ane silk fas with sowitt work wpon them 1659 Craven Ch. in Orkney II. 196. 1660 Wedderburn Bk. II. 43. 1685 Soc. Ant. LVIII. 359. 1694 Red Bk. Menteith I. 500. 1703 Craven Caithness Dioc. 156.
With fitt pands, utter and inner(b) 1600 Crawford Mun. Invent. II. 213 (4 Mar.).
Paundis(c) 1663 Kirkcudbr. Min. Bk. 186 n.
A chapell bed all of bundwork with two peice of hingings and pan(d) c1686 Depred. Clan Campbell 105.
Ane paun of a courtain worth 1 lib. 10 s.(2) 1648 Edinb. Test. LXIII. 322.
Ane courtene pand(3) 1648 Spottiswoode Misc. I. 370.
Ane pair of greine courteans and two piece of pand 1659 Craven Ch. in Orkney II. 196.
A peice wheit pand