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Kendaly(e, Kentdalee, Kendilly(e, n. Also : kendalie; kentdalé; kendeley, -del(l)ie, -dellé; -dil(l)é. [Corresp. to ME. and e.m.E. kendale (1389), -dal(l, the name of the cloth, f. Kendal in Westmorland (on the river Kent), the place of manufacture. Cf. Kendall and Kendilling.The explan. of the -ee, -y suffix is not clear.]

Kendal cloth; a kind of coarse woollen cloth or frieze, of green colour. Freq. grene kentdale(e, kendellie, etc. Also attrib. with cote.(a) 1497 Treas. Acc. I. 340.
For vij elne of grene kentdalee, to be ane cote to the King … for ilk elne iij s.attrib. 1502 Ib. II. 37.
Ane kentdalee cote(b) 1501 Ib. II. 29.
For viij elne kentdale 1503–4 Ib. 224.
For ane cote of kentdale to the King, quhilk he usit to were undir the rob riall Ib. 357.
For vj quartaris grene kentdale to covir the altair in the beschop of Abirdenis lugeing 1505 Ib. III. 96; 1508 Ib. IV. 21.(c) 1532 Ib. VI. 26.
To begarie the foirsaidis cote and doublet of kendalie 1534 Ib. 192.
Kendalye(d) 1531 Ib. V. 420.
For iij elnys … grene kendely to be ane galcote 1541 Ib. VII. 452.
Grene kendellie 1562–3 Ib. XI. 247.
To the fule viij elnis … of grene kendely 1568 Edinb. Test. I. 141 b.
Thre elnis of braid grene kendelie … price of the eln xx s. 1593 St. A. Test. II. 353.
Ane cloik of grein kendelie(e) 1586 Edinb. Test. XV. 84.
Four elnes of grene kendelle in raw clayth, price of the elne x s.(f) 1511 Treas. Acc. IV. 192.
Twa elnis kendilly 1512 Ib. 298.
To tile the Kingis oratour in the Margret schip xxxv elnis kendillye(g) 1512 Ib. 203; Ib. 206, etc.
xiij elnis kendille, price elne v s. 1533–4 Ib. VI. 186.
For ij¼ elnis Inglis kendile to be the King ane doublet