sendal
English
Alternative forms
- sandal
- sendle
Etymology
From Old French cendal.
Noun
sendal (countable and uncountable, plural sendals)
- (historical) A light silk cloth.
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book VIII, lv:
- And how in sendal wrapt away he bore / That head with him hung at his saddle-bow.
- 1885, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “uns al- Wujud and the Wazir’s Daughter Rose-in-Hood. [Night CCCLXXXI.]”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume V, [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC, page 62:
- We've crowned our meeting with a close embrace / On quilts where new brocades with sendal blend […].
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book VIII, lv:
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