E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Sin’don.
A thin manufacture of the Middle Ages used for dresses and hangings; also a little round piece of linen or lint for dressing the wound left by trepanning. (Du Cange gives its etymology Cyssus tenuis; but the Greek sindon means “fine Indian cloth.” India is Sind, and China Sina.)
