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Kendal green, Kendal(noun)
a green dye, often used to color cloth, which is obtained from the woad plant
A town in the Lake District.
, also as a variant of Kendall.
, transferred from the surname.
of modern usage.
Origin: Kent + dæl = "valley of the river Kent".
a cloth colored green by dye obtained from the woad-waxen, formerly used by Flemish weavers at Kendal, in Westmoreland, England
Kendal, anciently known as Kirkby in Kendal or Kirkby Kendal, is a market town and civil parish within the South Lakeland District of Cumbria, England. It is 50 miles south of Carlisle, on the River Kent, and has a total resident population of 27,505, making it the third largest settlement in Cumbria, behind Carlisle and Barrow in Furness. Historically a part of Westmorland, Kendal today is known largely as a centre for tourism, as the home of Kendal mint cake, and as a producer of pipe tobacco and tobacco snuff. Its buildings, mostly constructed with the local grey limestone, have earned it the nickname the Auld Grey Town.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
a Westmorland market-town on the Kent, 38 m. S. of Carlisle; manufactures heavy woollen goods, paper, and snuff; it owes the introduction of its woollen manufacture to the settlement in it of Flemings in the reign of Richard III.
The numerical value of kendal in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
The numerical value of kendal in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
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