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Cumbrian town — gateway to the Lake District
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kendal
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Kendal is a market town in Cumbria, England. It may also refer to:
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
green woolen cloth, late 14c., from place name in Westmoreland where it was manufactured. The place so called for being in the dale of the River Kent .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Kendal green \Ken"dal green`\, or Kendal \Ken"dal\ A cloth colored green by dye obtained from the woad-waxen, formerly used by Flemish weavers at Kendal, in Westmoreland, England. --J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants). How couldst thou know these men in Kendal ...
Usage examples of kendal.
He thought the adieux of Montague and Ada Dyas as fine as anything he had ever seen Croisette and Bressant do in Paris, or Madge Robertson and Kendal in London.
Since then I've used the Kendal accommodation address in the name of Charles Grant.
The Kendal green, though its date is more ancient, ought surely to be as dear to our feelings as the variegated tartans of the north.
Tom found it encouraging, to think that Kendal Mint Cake was still thriving in this new age.
At fifteen, still schoolmastering, he took a job in the nearby town of Kendal, and a decade after that he moved to Manchester, scarcely stirring from there for the remaining fifty years of his life.
From Broughton, which you'll have passed through on your way here, it goes up to Ambleside, then down through Windermere to Kendal.