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

At his heels was a little white-haired ecclesiastic in a flowing gown of scarlet sendal, expostulating and arguing in a torrent of words.

From Sir Nigel by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

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

"Curse on thy Spanish steel-coat!" said Locksley, "had English smith forged it, these arrows had gone through, an as if it had been silk or sendal."

From Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter, Sir

A black steed warmed A fierce impatience 'neath him cased in mail, Huge, foreign; and accoutered head to tail In costly sendal; rearward wine-dark red, Amber as sunlight to his fretful head.

From Accolon of Gaul with Other Poems by Cawein, Madison Julius