sendal

plural sendals · alternative sandal · alternative sendle

1. countablehistoricaluncountableA light silk cloth.

   In sangwyn and in pers he clad was al, Lyned with taffata and with sendal.

   He was clad all in red and in blue, Lined with taffeta and with silk.

   a. 1394, Geoffrey Chaucer, “General Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2020, lines 435-437

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   And how in sendal wrapt away he bore / That head with him hung at his saddle-bow.

   1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book VIII, lv

   We've crowned our meeting with a close embrace / On quilts where new brocades with sendal blend[…].

   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