sendal

English

Alternative forms

• sandal
• sendle

Etymology

From Old French cendal.

Noun

sendal (countable and uncountable, plural sendals)

1. (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 […].

Anagrams

• Dalens, Elands, Landes, Nadels, Sandel, Sladen, elands, landes, naleds