[f. BAY a.1 + -NESS.] The quality of being bay-colored.

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1570.  Levins, Manip., 90. Also many other that end in nesse, derived of adiectiues … as of bay, baynesse.

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1610.  Markham, Masterp., I. lxvi. 140. Baynesse turnes to dunnesse.

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