Kendal green

American  

[ken-dl] / ˈkɛn dl /

noun

1. a coarse woolen cloth, green in color.

2. a shade of green produced by a dye extracted from the woadwaxen plant.

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Kendal green British  

noun

1. a green woollen cloth, formerly worn by foresters

2. the colour of this cloth, produced by a dye obtained from the woad plant See also dyer's-greenweed

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Etymology

Origin of Kendal green

First recorded in 1505–15; named after Kendal, town in Westmoreland, England, where the cloth was originally woven and dyed

Example Sentences

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Kendal green

See, see! when I was fair encased in that Kendal green suit o' thine, why even Dad could not have told 'twas not thy very self!

From A Maid of Many Moods by Virna Sheard

Why, how couldst thou know these men in Kendal green, when it was so dark thou couldst not see thy hand? come, tell us your reason: what sayest thou to this?

From King Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare

Southward I dare not fly: fain, fain I would To Scotland bend my course; but all the woods Are full of outlaws, that in Kendal green Follow the outlaw'd Earl of Huntington.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by William Carew Hazlitt

And down through the midst ran the Avon southward, like a silver ribbon slipped through Kendal green, to where the Stour comes down, past Luddington, to Bidford, and away to the misty hills.

From Master Skylark by John Bennett

It was of Kendal green cloth, faced about the doublet with tan-coloured leather.

From A Maid of Many Moods by Virna Sheard