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Middle English
Noun
oundinge
- (hapax legomenon) Wavy lines or stripes on clothing.
1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Parsons Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, ,
→OCLC; republished in , editor,
The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, ,
:
Iohn Reynes ,
1542,
→OCLC,
folio cvi, recto:
As to the fyrſt ſynne in ſuperfluite of clothynge ſuch that maketh it ſo dere to the harme of the people, not only the coſt of imroydring the diſguyſed endendyng, or barringe, oundyng, palyng, wyndyng, or bendynge, and ſemblable waſt of cloth in vanite. But there is alſo the coſtlye furynge of in her gownes, ſo much ponſyng of cheſel to make hooles, ſo much daggyng of ſheres- As to the first sin—that is, superfluity of clothing—which makes the clothing so expensive, to the harm of the people; not only the cost of embroidering, the ostentatious ornamenting with bars, notches, wavy lines, stripes, folding, or decorative borders, the similar waste of cloth in vanity, but also the costly fur trimming in the gownes, so much punching of chisels to make holes, so much slitting with sheres.