Sĕn'dal, n.

n. [O. Fr., Pr., & Sp. cendal, It. zendaie, L. Lat. cendatum. Cf. Gr. σινδών, a fine Indian cloth.] A light, thin stuff of silk or thread.

Wore she not a vail of twisted sendal embroidered with silk? W. Scott.

Sails of silk, and ropes of sendal, Such as gleam in ancient lore. Longfellow.