sendal

Example Sentences

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In the evening they stumbled on a pavilion of red sendal, with nobody inside.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

The body was wrapt in a sendal wrought after the Moorish fashion, with sword and spear by its side, as tokens of knighthood.

From Chronicle of the Cid by Southey, Robert

Others think that sendal and the other forms are modifications of the ancient Sindon, and this is Mr. Marsh's view.

From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Yule, Henry

"Was not thy daughter dark-haired?" said one of the outlaws; "and wore she not a veil of twisted sendal, broidered with silver?"

From Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter, Sir

Thy smock of silk, both fair and white, With gold embroidered gorgeously; Thy petticoat of sendal right: And these I bought thee gladly.

From English Songs and Ballads by Crosland, T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson)