sendaline
English
Etymology
Noun
sendaline (countable and uncountable, plural sendalines)
- A type of thin silk cloth, sendal.
- 1866, Algernon Charles Swinburne, A Ballad of Death: Poems and Ballads:
- Upon her raiment of dyed sendaline / Were painted all the secret ways of love […]
- 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, pages 6–7:
- […] his cloak of cloth of gold is heavy with jewels, his tunic of black sendaline hath great hearts worked thereon in rubies and red silk thread.