sendal Now only Hist.
(ˈsɛndəl)
Forms: 3–4 cendal, 3–5 cendel, sendell, 4–5 sandelle, 4–6 sendel, sendale, (4 cendale, -dele, sandale), 5 sandel, sendelle, 5–6 sendalle, syndall, (5 sendyll(e, 5–7 sandall, 6 sindal, 6–7 sindall, (6 cendell, sandell, syndale, Sc. san-, sendill), 5–9 sendall, 4– sendal.
[a. OF. cendal, = Pr. zendal-s, sendat-z, Sp., Pg. cendal, It. zendale, sendale, zendado; a Com. Rom. word, whence MHG. zendâl, zindal, mod.G. zindel.
It is probable that the word is ultimately derived from Gr. σινδών fine linen, which it renders in OF. translations of the New Testament; but the history of the form is obscure.]
1. A thin rich silken material; also, a covering or garment of this material.
| a 1225 Juliana 9 (MS. Bodl.) Al þe cure ouertild..wið purpres & pelles, wið ciclatuns & cendals & deorewurðe clathes. a 1300 Cursor M. 14984 Þair lauerd was noþer cledd Wit silk ne yeitt cendel. 1362 Langl. P. Pl. A. vii. 19 And ȝe, loueli Ladeis.., Þat habbeþ selk, and sendel souweþ. c 1386 Chaucer Prol. 440 In sangwyn and in pers he clad was al Lyned with Taffata and with Sendal. 1395 E.E. Wills (1882) 4 A keuerlet of red sendel. 1523 Ld. Berners Froiss. I. 740 There was pyght vp a pauilyon of crymasyn sendall, right noble and riche. c 1530 ― Arth. Lyt. Bryt. (1814) 202 The ymage..blusshed as red as sendall. 1558 in Feuillerat Revels Q. Eliz. (1908) 82 Gowlde & sylver sendalls narrowe at xx{supd} the yarde. 1599 Thynne Animadv. (1875) 41 ‘Sendale’..was a thynne stuffe lyke sarcenette, and of a rawe kynde of sylke or sarcenett, but courser and narrower, then the Sarcenett nowe ys. 1679 Blount Anc. Tenures 117 Which horse shall have a saddle..covered with a sendal of the same armes. 1850 Longfellow By Seaside, Secret of Sea ii, Sails of silk and ropes of sendal, such as gleam in ancient lore. 1881 F. T. Palgrave Vis. Eng. 46 One girdled with the vervain-red, And three in sendal gray. |
† 2. As a rendering of L. sindon, the word was often understood (even before it became obsolete in sense 1) in the original Gr. and L. sense: Fine linen, lawn; a piece of this, used esp. as a shroud and as a dressing for wounds, etc. Obs.
| a 1300 Gosp. Nicod. (Galba) 722 He wand þat cors..in sendell new and clene. 1382 Wyclif Matt. xxvii. 59 And the body taken, Ioseph wlappide it in a clene sendel, or lynnen cloth. 1470–85 Malory Arthur v. viii. 174 Syxty senatours of Rome..whome the kynge dyd do bawme and..do cere them in syxty fold of cered clothe of Sendale. 1530 Palsgr. 203/2 Cendell thynne lynnen, sendal. 1606 Holland Sueton. 147 A loose mantle of fine Sendall [margin Lawne or Tiffanie]. |