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Definition of Sendal
1. n. A light thin stuff of silk.
Definition of Sendal
1. Noun. (historical) A light silk cloth. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sendal
1. a silk fabric [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sendal
Literary usage of Sendal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1882)
"Kal. July, 303. Put for sir-like, ie domineering. See sir (above). sendal, Cendal,
a rich thin silken stuff. ..."
2. Catholicon Anglicum: An English-Latin Wordbook, Dated 1483 by Sidney John Hervon Herrtage (1882)
"sendal or Cendal was a kind of rich thin silk used for lining, ... Neckam in his
Treatise de Uten- ti/ilian speaks of sendal as a material for shirts and ..."
3. The Archaeological Journal by British Archaeological Association (1893)
"... sendal (sindon], or the like in his Tabard, Hood or any other scholastic
dress ; only badger's fur or lamb's wool, and that only in his Hood, ..."
4. Annals of the Lords of Warrington for the First Five Centuries After the by William Beamont (1872)
"For every piece of sendal, a halfpenny. (sendal ... the term used, means sendal
strengthened or stiffened. What it was we learn from these lines of Gower ..."
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