sendal

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With the wreath may be considered the mantle, a hanging cloth which, in its earliest form, is seen as two strips of silk or sendal attached to the top of the helm below the crest and streaming like pennants as the rider bent his head and charged.

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Sendal, sen′dal, n. a thin silk or linen.

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She arrayed her in a rich silken gown from the lady's goodly store; and seated herself in the chamber on a rich stuff of broidered sendal; then she whispered the dame, and begged her to fetch Aucassin, her friend.

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We’re off wi’ bales of our Southdown wool Our fortune all to win, And we’ll bring ye gold and gowns o’ silk, Veils o’ sendal as white as milk, And sugar and spice galore, lasses— When our ship comes in!

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The hair fell in carefully arranged curls, long braids or loose tresses on the shoulders; the face was framed in delicate veils of silk or sendal, kept in place by a chaplet of flowers or a coronet of gold.

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