Crossword clues for kendal
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 green ?
--Shak.
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.
Wikipedia
Kendal , anciently known as Kirkby in Kendal or Kirkby Kendal, is a market town and civil parish within the South Lakeland District of Cumbria, England. Historically in Westmorland, it is situated about south east of Windermere, north of Lancaster, north east of Barrow-in-Furness and north west of Skipton. The town lies in the valley or "dale" of the River Kent, from which it derives its name, and has a total resident population of 28,586, making it the third largest settlement in Cumbria behind Carlisle and Barrow-in-Furness.
Kendal today is known largely as a centre for tourism, as the home of Kendal mint cake, and as a producer of pipe tobacco and tobacco snuff. Its buildings, mostly constructed with the local grey limestone, have earned it the nickname Grey Auld Town.
Kendal is a market town in Cumbria, England.
It may also refer to:
Kendal was a parliamentary borough centred on the town of Kendal in Westmorland. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.
Kendal (1883-1908) was an English Thoroughbred racehorse. He was trained at Kingsclere by John Porter for the 1st Duke of Westminster. He was a leading two-year-old, but retired due to injury. He later became a successful stallion and was Champion sire in 1897.
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.