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

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

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)

And I did so want a veil of sendal of Inde!”

From Earl Hubert's Daughter The Polishing of the Pearl - A Tale of the 13th Century by Holt, Emily Sarah

"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