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|strgr=of [[uncertain]] ([[perhaps]] [[foreign]]) [[origin]]; byssos, i.e. bleached [[linen]] (the [[cloth]] or a [[garment]] of it): ([[fine]]) [[linen]] ([[cloth]]). | |strgr=of [[uncertain]] ([[perhaps]] [[foreign]]) [[origin]]; byssos, i.e. bleached [[linen]] (the [[cloth]] or a [[garment]] of it): ([[fine]]) [[linen]] ([[cloth]]). | ||
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|txtha=σινδονος, ἡ (of [[uncertain]] [[origin]]; Sanskrit sindhu (Egyptian, sehenti or 'sent'; cf. Vanicek, Fremdwörter [[under]] the [[word]]); the Sept. for סָדִין, [[fine]] [[cloth]] (Latin sindon), i. e.:<br /><b class="num">1.</b> [[linen]] [[cloth]], [[especially]] [[that]] [[which]] [[was]] [[fine]] and [[costly]], in [[which]] the bodies of the [[dead]] were wrapped: [[Herodotus]] 2,86 [[who]] says of the Egyptians, κατειλισσουσι [[πᾶν]] τό [[σῶμα]] σινδονος βυσσινης ([[see]] Wilkinson's [[note]] in Rawlinson's [[Herod]]. 3rd edition, the [[passage]] cited)).<br /><b class="num">2.</b> [[thing]] made of [[fine]] [[cloth]]: so of a [[light]] and [[loose]] [[garment]] [[worn]] at [[night]] [[over]] the [[naked]] [[body]], A. V. [[linen]] [[cloth]]; cf. B. D. American edition, [[under]] the [[word]] Sheets). (Besides [[Herodotus]], the writers [[Sophocles]], [[Thucydides]], Strabo, Lucian, others [[use]] the [[word]].) | |||
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