Definitions for kendal

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Kendal green, Kendal(noun)

    a green dye, often used to color cloth, which is obtained from the woad plant

Wiktionary

  1. Kendal(ProperNoun)

    A town in the Lake District.

  2. Kendal(ProperNoun)

    , also as a variant of Kendall.

  3. Kendal(ProperNoun)

    , transferred from the surname.

  4. Kendal(ProperNoun)

    of modern usage.

  5. Origin: Kent + dæl = "valley of the river Kent".

Webster Dictionary

  1. Kendal

    a cloth colored green by dye obtained from the woad-waxen, formerly used by Flemish weavers at Kendal, in Westmoreland, England

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Kendal

    a Westmorland market-town on the Kent, 38 m. S. of Carlisle; manufactures heavy woollen goods, paper, and snuff; it owes the introduction of its woollen manufacture to the settlement in it of Flemings in the reign of Richard III.


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