[f. Kendal 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.
1389. Act 13 Rich. II., c. 10 § 1. Certeines draps en diverses Countees Dengleterre appelez Cogware & Kendalecloth.
1410. Rolls of Parlt., III. 643. Draps appelles Kendales, Kerseis, Bakkes, [etc.].
1464. Mann. & Househ. Exp. (Roxb.), 277. Payd for iiij. ȝerdys and iij. quarterys kendalle for a gowne and a sadyll clothe, the yerde ix. d.
1483. Act 1 Rich. III., c. 8 § 18. Any Cloths called Kendals.
1497. Ld. Treas. Acc., Scot., I. 340. For vij elne of grene Kentdalee. Ibid. (1505), III. 37. For x elne Kentdale to be ane cote to the King.
c. 1570. Pride & Lowl. (1841), 33. Of Kendall very course his coate was made.
a. 1687. Cotton, Poet. Wks. (1765), 82. His Breeches … Were Kendal, and his Doublet Fustian.
† b. attrib. Obs.
c. 1425. Lydg., Assembly of Gods, 356. On hys hede he had a thredebare kendall hood.
c. 1550. Disc. Common Weal Eng. (1893), 82. A servinge man was content to goe in a Kendall cote in somer.
1611. Coryat’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.
1514. Barclay, Cyt. & Uplondyshm. (Percy Soc.), p. vii. His costly clothing was threadebare kendall grene.
1532. More, Confut. Tindale, Wks. 618/2. Tyl he do of his gray garmentes and clothe him selfe cumly in gaye kendall greene.
1596. Shaks., 1 Hen. IV., II. iv. 246. Three mis-begotten Knaues, in Kendall Greene.
1812. Scott, Rokeby, V. xv. A seemly gown of Kendal green.
b. The green color of Kendal cloth; also, the plant Dyer’s Greenweed, with which it was dyed.
1866. Treas. Bot., 526/1. The process by which was obtained the once celebrated Kendal green.
1882. J. 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.
