santal
noun
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santal
1 American
[san-tl]
/ ˈsæn tl /
noun
Santal
2
American
[suhn-tahl]
/ sʌnˈtɑl /
noun
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Santals,
plural
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Santal
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of santal
see origin at sandal 2
Example Sentences
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Between the two stretched the island of Tuti, and at each end of the wall, on the White Nile as well as the Blue, Gordon had stationed a santal or heavy-armed barge, carrying a gun.
From The Life of Gordon, Volume II by Demetrius Charles Boulger
Some are fragrant oils, as, for example, clove, santal, and thyme; others are fragrant gums, such as gum bezoin and myrrh.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 417, December 29, 1883 by Various
By a "phonetic" error, santal is often printed "sandal," and "sandel."
From The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants by George William Septimus Piesse
Otto of vitivert is procurable by distillation; a hundred-weight of vitivert yields about 14 oz. of otto, which in appearance very much resembles otto of santal.
From The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants by George William Septimus Piesse
With a leaden sense of guilt, but in a fever of impatience, of haste, she stripped off the coarse hemp for her most elaborate satins, her santal and clover and carmine.
From Java Head by Joseph Hergesheimer
This new wordmark smells like Le Labo’s Santal 33.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
Joining that group this month is the luxury perfumer Le Labo, which is releasing incense in three of its popular home scents: Santal 26, Encens 9 and Ambroxyde 17.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026
From the musky floral Another 13 and Western desert Santal 33 to elegant tea-inspired offering Thé Noir 29, my next signature scent awaits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025
Murmu, 64, who hails from the eastern state of Odisha and was governor of Jharkhand state from 2015-2021, is a member of the Santal ethnic minority, one of India’s largest tribal groups.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 21, 2022
In Dracott’s story the human hero is a weaver also, as in the Santal.
From Filipino Popular Tales by Dean Spruill Fansler
Swords and arrows are the weapons of the Santals, simple hill folk in upper Bengal.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is a common saying that “a Kurubar always speaks the truth;” and Major Jervis says, “the Santals are the most truthful men I ever met with.”
From Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays by Alfred Russel Wallace
He is said to be the ancestor of the Bir hors, or jungle Santals.
From Santal Folk Tales by A. Campbell
And this is the reason why Santals do not clean the hares they kill, but eat them entrails and all.
From Folklore of the Santal Parganas by Cecil Henry Bompas
The sun, the supreme god of the Santals.
From Folklore of the Santal Parganas by Cecil Henry Bompas
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