What is "sendal"

Usage examples of "sendal".

Beneath his fingers her skin felt like precious sendal from the Orient, and its smooth texture made him hunger to touch more of her.

In a pavilion of blue sendal constructed above the field on a high scaffold so to command the best view of the battle sat King Jaspin upon his traveling throne, sputtering with rage.

That was followed by an overgown, or bliault, of heavy sendal, dyed a deep, rich green.

But its silk-lined interior yielded only a silver comb and a chemise woven of a sendal so fine she could see her splayed fingers through two layers of the stuff.

Since Willow could do nothing to hide the way the sheer sendal clung to her rosy nipples or pooled between her thighs, she refused to even try.

Hrimscathr alighted beside a booth of rippling gold sendal, pitched near the Royal Pavilion.

The wind carried the sounds of the bivouacked armies more clearly through the thin sendal partitionssongs of victory, laughter, the jingle of harness.

Regal reds and lush sendal greens and winking brass formed an intimidating palette of elegance wherever she looked.

Duke did not cover his chair with cloth of sendal, but he sat in a chair of wood.

While they stooped over this bird the sun rose and shone between the tree-trunks, and lifting their heads they saw a green glade before them, and in the midst of the glade three pavilions set, each of red sendal, that shone in the morning.

And the one who appears to be the leader of them all now extends her hand to the bold knight who has cast himself into the boiling lake and, without saying a word, conducts him into the splendid palace or castle, where she makes him strip until he is as bare as when his mother bore him, and then bathes him in lukewarm water, after which she anoints him all over with sweet-smelling unguents and clothes him in a shirt of finest sendal, all odorous and perfumed, as another maid tosses a mantle over his shoulders, one which at the very least, so they say, must be worth as much as a city and even more.

Her face was covered with a fine, transparent sendal, the warp of which did not prevent the features of a most beautiful maiden from being discovered.

There were silks in rose samite, violet sendal, and a heavy green and blue damask.

Yards of sendal billowed out and fell to the mattress in cascades of white shot with gold and sewn with pearls.

Her honey-brown hair, partially covered by a thin white veil of sendal and crowned with a narrow golden coronet, was dressed in a multitude of thin plaits threaded with jeweled bangles.