sendal

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

He showed him the shops of the china ware,   And of silk and sendal also,And he showed him the baths and the waterpipes   On arches aloft that go.

From Andromeda and Other Poems by Kingsley, Charles

Distaff of light is in her hand, From which she spins the lily, and The sendal robes of field and forest, With dewy odors in every strand.

From Song-waves by Rand, Theodore H. (Theodore Harding)

Very sweet and dainty were these maidens, and richly clothed in garments of crimson sendal, closely girt and fashioned to their bodies.

From French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France by France, Marie de