sindon
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of sindon
1400–50; late Middle English < Latin sindōn < Greek sindṓn
Example Sentences
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His under garment was of excellent white linen down to the foot, girt with a girdle of the same; and a sindon or tippet of the same about his neck.
From New Atlantis by Francis Bacon
Their only dress is a sindon or cloak, out of which they put forth one arm.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 by Robert Kerr
This form ousted the older A.S. sind, sindon.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Instead of the plural are, Old English had beoth and sind or sindon, same as the German sind.
From An English Grammar by James Witt Sewell
And then the sindon, or corporal, was turned back over them, to cover them as a pall.
From Callista : a Tale of the Third Century by John Henry Newman
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