Definition of "sendal" []

• A thin light silk used in the Middle Ages for fine garments, church vestments, and banners. (noun)

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• "By night, and almost naked, covered with only a sendal and hood, the faithful males of Tzintzuntzan practice an unusual form of penitence, which consists of walking through the town, their faces covered, the ankles shackled with the same shackles which the town fathers have jealously guarded for the past 500 years, since the era of slavery under the Spanish Conquest."
• "“Was not thy daughter dark-haired?” said one of the outlaws; “and wore she not a veil of twisted sendal, broidered with silver?”"
• "“Sails of silk and ropes of sendal,” and poetic noiseless movements only would suit these lovely Malacca Straits."