Kendal
[kendәl]
Definition
(-) A cloth colored green by dye obtained from the woad-waxen, formerly used by Flemish weavers at Kendal, in Westmoreland, England.
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Examples
- 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. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- John Dalton (1766-1844) was born in Cumberland, went to Kendal to teach school at the age of fifteen, and remained in the Lake Dist rict of England till 1793. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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