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sandal

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Searchable Lemmata: sandal (AF), sandalum (L), sandal (ME), sandal (OScots), sandal (MdE).
Alternate Forms: cendales.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1a(n.) Footwear; sandal; an open-toed shoe consisting of a sole fastened across the top of the foot with thongs.(circa 1384 still in current use)
1. Thei schulde not take ony thing in the weye ... but schoon with sandalies, that ben opyn aboue Biblical/Hagiographic. [MED WBible(1) ((Dc 369(2)) Mark 6.9) circa 1384]
2. fuist chaucé od sandales ové solers [AND Anon Chr (111.9) 1382/1399]
AF, L, ME, MdE, OScots.
Sex: Male, Female    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: Foot.
1b(n.) Footwear; ecclesiastical footwear; a half-shoe of very fine quality, of cloth rather than leather, worn by popes, bishops or sovereigns.(circa 1400)
1. [B15] ... Item, ung petit drap de satin pers, appellé une seoirre, a mettre au giron de l’evesque quant il celebre, semee de fleurs de liz et de cinq papillons ... [B16] ... unes cendales de satin blanc brodés ... Accounts. [AND Bedford Inventories (B15-16) circa 1400]
2. [B44] ... une autre tunique ... pour prelate ... a pluseurs armoieries ... [B45] ... l’estole et le fanon sur champ noire de brodere a appostres et la colerette de mesmes ... [B46] ... deux paires de cendales pour prelat ... [B49] ... Item, une chappelle appellé la chapelle de Pasques, laquelle est de camocas blanc ... Accounts. [AND Bedford Inventories (B44-49) circa 1389/1435]
3. Byschope shone: Sandalia ... [15] Atyre of þe hede: tiara. Gloss. [MED Cath.Angl. ((Monson 168) 14b-15) 1483]
4. Thursday ... is þe stacion at a cherch ... wher seynt siluester lith, & þere is his stole, his uestment, & his sandalys [MED Capgr.Rome ((Bod 423) 131) circa 1450]
AF, L, ME, MdE, OScots.
Sex: Male    Use: Ecclesiastical    Status: High    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: Foot.

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, Latin sandalium, Medieval Latin sandalum, Anglo-Latin scendalium and Old French sendale, cendale (AF sandal).
WF:
Etym Cog: sandal (AF), sandalum (L).
References:

    Art and Illustration:

References: Mayo, J. (1984)
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