sendal

Searchable Lemmata: cendal (OE), cendalum (L), cendalium (L), cendal (AF), sendal (AF), cendal (ME), syndal (W), cendel (Corn), sandale (OScots), sendal (MdE).

Alternate Forms: cedles, cendale, cendale, cendallium, cendallum, cendals, cendatum, cendel, cender, cendiapilum, cendre, cindalium, cindatum, sandal, sandallium, sandalum, sandatum, sandel, scendallum, scindallum, scindellum, sendal, sendale, sendallum, sendatum, sendel, sendell, sendelle, sendellum, sendellum, sendil, sendillum, sendre, sindal, sindatum, sindo, sindon.

1a(n.) Textile; technically, a tabby-woven silk cloth, usually light, but available in heavier weights. It was the least expensive and most common silk cloth of the Middle Ages, known in Europe since Carolingian times and by the thirteenth century woven in most of Europe's major silk-weaving centres, especially in Italy. In England in the 14th and 15th centuries the term sendal/cendal was replaced by taffata, tarteryn and sarcenet [King, D. (1993)]. Literary usage of sendal/cendal is more vague. There was some confusion in records with sindon (q.v.) in the fourteenth century,(circa 1210 still in current use) 1b(n.) Textile; fine lawn, linen or similar fabric used for a winding-sheet or shroud, or else the garment itself (particularly for the Deposition of the body of Christ). During the fourteenth century, cendal seems to have been used interchangeably with sindon(e) (L sindo, sindon).(circa 1000 still in current use) 2(n.) Garment; cf. sendal [also cf. 'sendaline' an adj. coined in the nineteenth century -- see entry for 'sendal' (n), Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed.]., cf. Mayo 1984 and sindon(ante 1325 still in current use)