Sendal

Alternative forms

• sandal

Origin

From Old French cendal.

Full definition of sendal

Noun

1. (historical) A light silk cloth.
• 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XIII:he was in a cote of rede sendell, and bare a mantell uppon hys sholder that was furred with ermyne, and put that uppon hym.
• 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book VIII, lv:And how in sendal wrapt away he bore
• That head with him hung at his saddle-bow.
• 1885, Richard Francis Burton, The book of the thousand nights and a night, Vol. 5:We've crowned our meeting with a close embrace
  On quilts where new brocades with sendal blend ....

Anagrams

• elands