Note 3 — LETTER XLII.
Reading edition
Sensale, an interesting Venetian word. The fair on the Feast of the Ascension at Venice became in mellifluous brevity, ‘Sensa,’ and the most ornamental of the ware purchaseable at it, therefore, Sensale.
A “Holy-Thursday-Fairing,” feeling herself unwell, would be the properest translation. ↑