Almain

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English

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Etymology

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From Middle English Alemaine, Almayne, from Anglo-Norman Allemaine, Almaine et al., Old French Alemaigne, from Late Latin Alamannia (territory of the Alamanni tribe), from Alemannī, Allemannī, of Germanic origin probably corresponding to all + men. Compare Alemannic.

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Proper noun

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Almain

  1. (now historical) Germany. [from 13th c.]
    • c. 1541, The Chronicle of Calais, London, published 1846:
      The x. of Awgust Maximilian emperowr of Almayne came to kynge Henry of England besyde Terwen, and there the emperowre had wages of the kynge.
    • 1994, Marianne Constable, The Law of the Other, page 162:
      The merchants who owned the goods claimed that the King of Almain was the lord of the town, and the Bishop could not do justice in the matter.

Noun

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Almain (plural Almains)

  1. (now archaic, literary, poetic) A German. [from 14th c.]
  2. A kind of dance. See allemande. [from 16th c.]

Adjective

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Almain (comparative more Almain, superlative most Almain)

  1. (now archaic, historical) German. [from 15th c.]
    • 1589–1592 (date written), Ch[ristopher] Marl[owe], The Tragicall History of D. Faustus. [], London: [] V[alentine] S[immes] for Thomas Bushell, published 1604, →OCLC, signature [A4], recto:
      Fauſtus theſe bookes thy wit and our experience / Shall make all nations to canonize vs, / As Indian Mooꝛes obey their Spaniſh Loꝛds, / So ſhall the ſubiects of euery element / Be alwaies ſeruiceable to vs thꝛée, / Like Lyons ſhall they guard vs when we pleaſe, / Like Almaine Rutters with their hoꝛſemens ſtaues, / Oꝛ Lapland Gyants trotting by our ſides, / Sometimes like women, oꝛ vnwedded maides, / Shadowing moꝛe beautie in their ayrie bꝛowes, / Then in their white bꝛeaſts of the queene of Loue: []
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