OUR LADY’S BANDS, subs. phr. (old colloquial).—Accouchement; ‘confinement’ (an old abstract meaning).

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  1495.  Festival [STRYPE, Ecclesiastical Memorials, I. ii., Appendix xxxvii. 90]. Pray … for al the women which be in OUR LADYES BANDES.

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  See BANDED.

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