Middle English Dictionary Entry
sandal n.
Entry Info
| Forms | sandal n. Also sandalle, -elle, -ali(e & sendale, -alle, -ille. |
| Etymology | L sandalium, ML sandalum, AL scendalium & OF sandale, cendale. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A kind of shoe, consisting of a sole fastened to the foot by thongs, a sandal; (b) a richly made shoe worn by popes and bishops.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Mark 6.9 : Thei schulde not take ony thing in the weye..but schoon with sandalies, that ben opyn aboue.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Judith 10.3 : Sche clothide hir with the clothis of hyr gladnesse, and clothide hir feet with sandalies [WB(1): gaȝe shon; L sandalia].
- c1425 *Wycl.Concord.(Roy 17.B.1)123b : Sandals: Schod wiþ sandalis, mark, sixte cap.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)110b : Sendale [Monson: Sendylle]: Sandalum.
- a1500 Mirror Salv.(Beeleigh)p.105 : Judith hire clothis didde on..With mytre hire heved arraied, and sandales eke on hire fete.
b
- (1423) Will York in Sur.Soc.4576 : ij sendalles de panno rubeo, cum parvis rosis de auro.
- c1450 Capgr.Rome (Bod 423)131 : Thursday..is þe stacion at a cherch..wher seynt siluester lith, & þere is his stole, his uestment, & his sandalys.
- c1475 Gregory's Chron.(Eg 1995)167 : They..a-rayde hym as a byschoppe..with a stole a bowte hys necke, not crossyd, and a pon hys fete a payre of sandellys [Lond.Chron.Vit.(1): sandalles].
- c1425 Wycl.Antichr.(2) (Dub 245)p.cxxvi : Þe pope & oþere bischopes wole kepe here feet ful cleene..wiþ sendales wiþ golde, wiþ siluer, & silk preciousely diȝt.
- a1500(c1410) Dives & P.(Htrn 270)2.228 : The buschopys..sandalyys & þe schon in [read: on] his feete at messe betokenyn þe naylys in Cristis feet.