Obs. rare–1. [? Connected with Lombardy; cf. pleasance from Placentia, Piacenza.] A kind of black lawn.
a. 1548. Hall, Chron., Hen. VIII. (1809), 514. Their faces, neckes, armes & handes, couered with fyne pleasaunce blacke: Some call it Lumberdynes, which is merueylous thine, so that the same ladies semed to be nygrost or blacke Mores.
