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sen·dal

 (sĕn′dl)
n.
A thin light silk used in the Middle Ages for fine garments, church vestments, and banners.

[Middle English cendal, from Old French, ultimately from Greek sindōn, fine linen.]
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sendal

(ˈsɛndəl)
n
1. (Textiles) a fine silk fabric used, esp in the Middle Ages, for ceremonial clothing, etc
2. (Clothing & Fashion) a garment of such fabric
[C13: from Old French cendal, from Medieval Latin cendalum; probably related to Greek sindon fine linen]
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sen•dal

(ˈsɛn dl)

n.
1. a silk fabric in use during the Middle Ages.
2. a garment made of this.
[1175–1225; Middle English cendal < Old French]
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``had English smith forged it, these arrows had gone through, an as if it had been silk or sendal.'' He then began to call out, ``Comrades!
Saya mengikuti dengan antusias, tapi sendal jepit menyulitkan saya karena tanah kering membuatnya berkali-kali terlepas, tersangkut, atau bahkan terjepit masuk di antara retakan-retakannya.
on Intelligent Robots and Systems (2004 IEEE/RSJ), Sendal, Japan, 2004, pp.
female-- a hose-sheer sendal, a lewd mousseline, a diaphanous pellicule
The timely availability of inputs and their good management results in high production but poor access to output markets creates problems for farmers which reduces their profits (Sendal, 2007).
Philippe de Meziere's "Presentation of Mary in the Temple" at Avignon in 1372 contains very precise details concerning the "young and most beautiful girl, about three or four years old" who would play the young Virgin Mary, and the "two other most beautiful girls of the same age" who served as her attendants: Mary wore a "white tunic of sendal [fine silk]" to show her "innocence and virginality," and the other girls wore "green and blue, with circlets of silver," holding candles as they walk in procession.
Peterhans, "Sendal virus stimulates chemiluminescence in mouse spleen cells," Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, vol.
Production may be pintsized, but this seemingly trivial yarn, enriched by its setting in post-tsunami Sendal, actually ponders huge questions about fate and coincidence.
Midori Watanabe graduates this month from Sendal Shirayuri High School in Sendai Japan.
Nowhere was the tsunami felt more dramatically than in the narrow inlets that riddle Japan's Sanriku coast, north of the city of Sendal. Fishing villages nestle within the inlets where they are protected from wind and everyday waves, but such locations are the worst place to be when a tsunami arrives, says Costas Synolakis, a tsunami expert at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and at the Hellenic Center for Marine Research in Anavyssos, Greece.