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Kendal|ˈkɛndəl|
[f. Kendal in Cumbria (formerly in Westmorland), the place of manufacture.
Rymer's Fœdera II. 825 has a letter of protection, of the year 1331, to John Kempe of Flanders, who established cloth-weaving at Kendal. See Westmorland Note-bk. I. 241–250.]
†1. A species of green woollen cloth. Obs.
1389Act. 13 Rich. II, c. 10 §1 Certeines draps en diverses Countees Dengleterre appelez Cogware & Kendalecloth. 1410Rolls of Parlt. III. 643 Draps appelles Kendales, Kerseis, Bakkes, [etc.]. 1464Mann. & Househ. Exp. (Roxb.) 277 Payd for iiij. ȝerdys and iij. quarterys kendalle for a gowne and a sadyll clothe, the yerde ix. d. 1483Act 1 Rich. III, c. 8 §18 Any Cloths called Kendals. 1497Ld. Treas. Acc., Scot. I. 340 For vij elne of grene Kentdalee. 1505Ibid. III. 37 For x elne Kentdale to be ane cote to the King. c1570Pride & Lowl. (1841) 33 Of Kendall very course his coate was made. a1687Cotton Poet. Wks. (1765) 82 His Breeches..Were Kendal, and his Doublet Fustian.
†b. attrib. Obs.
c1425Lydg. Assembly of Gods 356 On hys hede he had a thredebare kendall hood. c1550Disc. Common Weal Eng. (1893) 82 A servinge man was content to goe in a Kendall cote in somer. 1611Coryat's Crudities Panegyr. Verses, The Mayor of Hartlepoole..Put on's considering cap and Kendall gowne.
2. Kendal green.
a. = sense 1. Now only arch. or Hist.
1514Barclay Cyt. & Uplondyshm. (Percy Soc.) p. vii, His costly clothing was threadebare kendall grene. 1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 618/2 Tyl he do of his gray garmentes and clothe him selfe cumly in gaye kendall greene. 1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, ii. iv. 246 Three mis-begotten Knaues, in Kendall Greene. 1812Scott Rokeby v. xv, A seemly gown of Kendal green.
b. The green colour of Kendal cloth; also, the plant Dyer's Greenweed, with which it was dyed.
1866Treas. Bot. 526/1 The process by which was obtained the once celebrated Kendal green. 1822J. Smith Dict. Econ. Pl., Kendal Green,..a low bushy shrub of the bean family... It yields a yellow dye, but by a mordant becomes a permanent green.
Hence † kendaling Sc. Obs., Kendal cloth.
15..Aberdeen Reg. XVI. (Jam.) Ane coitt of grene kendilling. Ibid., Ane grene kendelyng cloik. |