Light, thin silk fabric from China; or a rich silk fabric of the Middle Ages.
1 And if she must have some sendal of Inde, well,-fateis inevitable.
2 Never did Owain see an assemblage so gorgeous with satin, and silk, and sendal .
3 But my Lady will give me the sendal of Inde?
4 They make great quantities of sendal of different kinds, and they have much game in the neighbourhood.
5 Do you think that pedlar will have any sendal (a silk stuff of extremely fine quality) of India?
6 And afore him he saw a long bridge, and three pavilions stood thereon, of silk and sendal of divers hue.
7 Very sweet and dainty were these maidens, and richly clothed in garments of crimson sendal , closely girt and fashioned to their bodies.
8 But we look in vain for the "sails of silk and ropes of sendal , " which are alone appropriate to this dream-world.
9 At his heels was a little white-haired ecclesiastic in a flowing gown of scarlet sendal , expostulating and arguing in a torrent of words.
10 The clothing of the horse from the front opening upwards was of bright red sendal , and from thence opening downwards was of bright yellow sendal .
11 For they have plenty of silk from which they weave stuffs of silk and gold, and sendals in large quantities.
12 "Sails of silk and ropes of sendal , " and poetic noiseless movements only would suit these lovely Malacca Straits.
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