sendal

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The clothing of the horse from the front opening upwards was of bright red sendal, and from thence opening downwards was of bright yellow sendal.

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  1. noun A thin light silk used in the Middle Ages for fine garments, church vestments, and banners.

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  • Semuanya pake jeans, gue pake sneakers, dan Ivan pake sendal malahan. —  Kelinci Putih
  • The clothing of the horse from the front opening upwards was of bright red sendal, and from thence opening downwards was of bright yellow sendal. —  The Mabinogion Vol. 1 (of 3)
  • But we look in vain for the "sails of silk and ropes of sendal," which are alone appropriate to this dream-world. —  The Hawaiian Archipelago
  • My clothes of sendal are, my veil of the sun's light, The very handiwork of God the Lord Most High. —  Tales from the Arabic — Complete
  • Raiment of silk and sendal, too, he brought to us for gift, And me in marriage sought therewith; yet, all his pains despite, Of me he got not what he sought and brideless did return, For that estrangement and disdain were pleasing in my sight. —  Tales from the Arabic — Complete
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  1. Middle English cendal, from Old French, ultimately from Greek sindōn, fine linen.

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  1. Early modern English sendall, sendell, cendal, cendell, syndale, sometimes sandal; from Middle English sendel, sendal, sendale, sendalle, sendell, cendel, from Old French sendal, cendal = Spanish Portuguese cendal = Italian zendalo, zendado, “a kind of fine thin silken stuffe, called taffeta, sarcenett, or sendall” (Florio) (from Turkish sandal, brocade), from Middle Latin *sendalum, cendalum, sendal, also cindadus, cindatus, cendatum, sendatum, etc., equivalent to Greek σινδών, fine linen: see sindon.
 

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