oundinge

Middle English edit

oundinge

(hapax) Wavy lines or stripes on clothing.
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Parsons Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] 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.