plaigne
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editplaigne oblique singular, f (oblique plural plaignes, nominative singular plaigne, nominative plural plaignes)
- Alternative form of plain (“plain, flat area”)
- c. 1220, Lancelot du Lac; republished as Heinrich Oskar Sommer, editor, The Vulgate Version of the Arthurian Romances […], volume 3, Le Livre de Lancelot del Lac, Part I, 1910, page 157:
- Lors deschent li rois aual & se herberge en la plaigne desous sor les fontaines qui i sont.
- Then the king descended downstream and took shelter in the plain below, atop the fountains that were there.