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- noun Obsolete spelling of
plaint .
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Examples
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Uvver tiems I gets tired uv teh plain… playnt… pafetick crais and sez “OK bebeh, go on then.”
You lied to me. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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The oxce is a co {m} panable beste, & amonge his co {m} pani he is very meke/& alwaye he seketh his felowe that was wont to go in the plowghe wyth hym/and whan he fyndeth nat his felow, than cryeth he wyth a lowde voyce, makyng gret mone/as it were one {tha} t wolde make a mourninge co {m} playnt.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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¶ Seest thou nat now thou beest? doest y [o] u nat now p [er] ceyue what is mennes co [m] playnt on thy visage? there is no [n] that co [m] plaineth that I wote nat what Surrien & of theyr flocke whiche be but newly crepte vp to ho [-] nour out of the donghyll is now made con [-] sull of the city.
The Art or Crafte of Rhetoryke Leonard Cox 1528
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2.68.57: For, I am one of them, whom playnt doth well content:
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1.15.26: Of pleasaunt playnt, and of our ladies prayse,
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