Obs. [a. OF. bendel, bandel, dim. of bende, bande: cf. BANDEAU, BANDEL. (It is only accidentally that this coincides in form and sense with mod.G. bendel a fillet, OHG. bendil, bentil, pentil, and ON. bendill a small cord.)]

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  1.  A little band or scarf; a fillet, a ribbon.

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1483.  Caxton, Gold. Leg., 244/1. She wyped it … with a bendel of sylke.

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1537.  Act Hen. VIII., in Planché, Brit. Cost. (1834), 365. Or use or weare any shirt, smock, kurchar, bendel, neckerchour, mocket or linen cappe [etc.].

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  2.  Her. A little bend; = BENDLET.

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c. 1325.  Coer de L., 2964. And off asur a fayr bendel.

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1486.  Bk. St. Albans, Her., E j b. Littill bendys … be calde bendyllys to the differans of grete bendys.

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