sendal (sendal)

[Early mod. E. send all, sendell, cendal, cendell, syndale, sometimes san dal; Turk. sandal, brocade), Ioseph Ab Arimathia asked of Pylate the bod ye of our Lorde and leyde it in a clene Sendell , and put it in a Sepulcre that no man had ben buryed in. Joseph of Arimathie (E. E. T. S.), p. 33. In sangwin and in pers he clad was al, Lined with taffata and with sendal . Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 440. Sendale .. was a thynne stuffe lyke sarcenett, but coarser and narrower than the sarcenett now ys, as myselfe can remember. Thynne , Anim. on Speght's Chaucer (1598). ( Fairholt .) Thy smock of silk both fine and white, With gold embroider'd gorgeously, Thy petticoat of send all right, And this I bought thee gladly. Green sleeves (Ellis's Specimens, III. 328). ( Nares .) Sails of silk and ropes of sendal, Such as gleam in ancient lore. Long fellow, Secret of the Sea.