sendal
Americannoun
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a silk fabric in use during the Middle Ages.
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a piece of this fabric or a garment made of it.
noun
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a fine silk fabric used, esp in the Middle Ages, for ceremonial clothing, etc
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a garment of such fabric
Etymology
Origin of sendal
1175–1225; Middle English cendal < Old French, probably through dissimilation < Greek sindṓn fine linen, sindon
Example Sentences
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In the evening they stumbled on a pavilion of red sendal, with nobody inside.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
The pavilion, with its cords of sendal and its silver hanging lamps, spun round about him.
From The Black Douglas by Richards, Frank
And I did so want a veil of sendal of Inde!”
From Earl Hubert's Daughter The Polishing of the Pearl - A Tale of the 13th Century by Holt, Emily Sarah
"Curse on thy Spanish steel-coat!" said Locksley, "had English smith forged it, these arrows had gone through, an as if it had been silk or sendal."
From Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter, Sir
He showed him the shops of the china ware, And of silk and sendal also,And he showed him the baths and the waterpipes On arches aloft that go.
From Andromeda and Other Poems by Kingsley, Charles
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