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

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

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

"Curse on thy Spanish steel-coat!" said Locksley, "had English smith forged it, these arrows had gone through, an as if it had been silk or sendal."

From Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter, Sir