Spaine

English

Proper noun

Spaine

  1. Obsolete form of Spain.
    • 1673, Joseph Hill, The Interest Of theſe United Provinces. Being a Defence of the Zeelanders Choice […], Middelburg: Printed by Thomas Berry, page [75]:
      If we come under France, we have not onely Spaine our enimie by Sea and Land (as we have ſhewne) but the los of our Spaniſh Trade, and the hazarding of our whole Levant Traffick: And if we rightly calculate, that amounts to no ſmall part of our Commerce.

Middle English

Proper noun

Spaine

  1. Alternative form of Spayne
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