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The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2

Note {1} — Chapter XXXVI

Henry Yule translation

Note 1.—The word is sendaus (Pauthier), pl. of sendal, and in G. T. sandal. It does not seem perfectly known what this silk texture was, but as banners were made of it, and linings for richer stuffs, it appears to have been a light material, and is generally rendered taffetas. In Richard Cœur de Lion we find

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