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
Very sweet and dainty were these maidens, and richly clothed in garments of crimson sendal, closely girt and fashioned to their bodies.
From French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France by France, Marie de
Il vivent d'ars: car il hi se laborent des biaus sendal et autres dras.
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Yule, Henry
"Was not thy daughter dark-haired?" said one of the outlaws; "and wore she not a veil of twisted sendal, broidered with silver?"
From Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter, Sir
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