Noun: sindon
| Singular | sindon |
| Plural | sindons |
Sample Sentences
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There were found in it a Book, and a Letter; Both […] wrapped in Sindons of Linnen. [1626, Francis Bacon, New Atlantis, section 10:]
Nouns inflected like sindon
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin sindōn (possibly by way of Old French syndone and sindone), from Ancient Greek σινδών (sindṓn), from Late Egyptian šndy(t), from earlier šnḏwt (“kilt”). See: Latin Nouns '
sindōn', Ancient Greek Nouns '
σινδών'.