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sendal Now only Hist.|ˈsɛndəl|
Forms: 3–4 cendal, 3–5 cendel, sendell, 4–5 sandelle, 4–6 sendel, sendale, (4 cendale, -dele, sandale), 5 sandel, sendelle, 5–6 sendalle, syndall, (5 sendyll(e, 5–7 sandall, 6 sindal, 6–7 sindall, (6 cendell, sandell, syndale, Sc. san-, sendill), 5–9 sendall, 4– sendal.
[a. OF. cendal, = Pr. zendal-s, sendat-z, Sp., Pg. cendal, It. zendale, sendale, zendado; a Com. Rom. word, whence MHG. zendâl, zindal, mod.G. zindel.
It is probable that the word is ultimately derived from Gr. σινδών fine linen, which it renders in OF. translations of the New Testament; but the history of the form is obscure.]
1. A thin rich silken material; also, a covering or garment of this material.
a1225Juliana 9 (MS. Bodl.) Al þe cure ouertild..wið purpres & pelles, wið ciclatuns & cendals & deorewurðe clathes. a1300Cursor M. 14984 Þair lauerd was noþer cledd Wit silk ne yeitt cendel. 1362Langl. P. Pl. A. vii. 19 And ȝe, loueli Ladeis.., Þat habbeþ selk, and sendel souweþ. c1386Chaucer Prol. 440 In sangwyn and in pers he clad was al Lyned with Taffata and with Sendal. 1395E.E. Wills (1882) 4 A keuerlet of red sendel. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. 740 There was pyght vp a pauilyon of crymasyn sendall, right noble and riche. c1530― Arth. Lyt. Bryt. (1814) 202 The ymage..blusshed as red as sendall. 1558in Feuillerat Revels Q. Eliz. (1908) 82 Gowlde & sylver sendalls narrowe at xxd the yarde. 1599Thynne Animadv. (1875) 41 ‘Sendale’..was a thynne stuffe lyke sarcenette, and of a rawe kynde of sylke or sarcenett, but courser and narrower, then the Sarcenett nowe ys. 1679Blount Anc. Tenures 117 Which horse shall have a saddle..covered with a sendal of the same armes. 1850Longfellow By Seaside, Secret of Sea ii, Sails of silk and ropes of sendal, such as gleam in ancient lore. 1881F. T. Palgrave Vis. Eng. 46 One girdled with the vervain-red, And three in sendal gray.
†2. As a rendering of L. sindon, the word was often understood (even before it became obsolete in sense 1) in the original Gr. and L. sense: Fine linen, lawn; a piece of this, used esp. as a shroud and as a dressing for wounds, etc. Obs.
a1300Gosp. Nicod. (Galba) 722 He wand þat cors..in sendell new and clene. 1382Wyclif Matt. xxvii. 59 And the body taken, Ioseph wlappide it in a clene sendel, or lynnen cloth. 1470–85Malory Arthur v. viii. 174 Syxty senatours of Rome..whome the kynge dyd do bawme and..do cere them in syxty fold of cered clothe of Sendale. 1530Palsgr. 203/2 Cendell thynne lynnen, sendal. 1606Holland Sueton. 147 A loose mantle of fine Sendall [margin Lawne or Tiffanie]. |