Obs. Forms: 4 queintise, 5 queyntise, coyntise. [? f. prec., or a. OF. cointiss-, lengthened stem of cointir.] trans. To beautify, adorn, dress finely.
1390. Gower, Conf., III. 358. Sondri thinges wel devised, I sih, wherof thei ben queintised.
c. 1430. Pilgr. Lyf Manhode, II. iii. (1869), 77. He weeneth he be now wel arayed and queyntised!
1483. Caxton, G. de la Tour, C iij. They haue so many gownes wherof they coyntyse and araye their bodyes.
Hence † Quaintising vbl. sb., adornment, decoration. Obs.
c. 1430. Pilgr. Lyf Manhode, II. civ. (1869), 113. Garnementes of velewet beten with gold and siluer and oothere queyntisinges.
