Life never stands still. People, nature, environment, rules, customs are changing. Every year there are more and more new inventions - appliances, clothes, food and much more.
In conversation, words change. Communicating among themselves, people use new epithets and terms, which then become popular, appearing not only in oral speech.
Of course, there are words and phrases that we have stopped using. Even the significance of many of them is unfamiliar to us. These words include the word “shandal”. What is it?
Shandals are ancient utensils.
Previously, there were such things as a washstand, ruble, tues, grab, kerosene lamps, steelyard, spinning wheel, shandal and others.
Today, not everyone understands their significance. For example, shandals are interior items. By and large, such a design is a copper candlestick. Often it was so big that it was put on the floor.
Previously, this word was used in the literary works of I. S. Turgenev, A. S. Pushkin, A. N. Kuprin and other writers. For example: "In her hand she held a candle on a copper shandal and illuminated the stairs."
Translated from the Persian language, shandals are literally "candle containers." The copper barrel of the candlestick branched, sometimes it could fit more than ten candles.
Other meaning
The word can be familiar to the modern generation thanks to the work of Sergey Karelin, who wrote the book “Chronicles of Chandal”, which tells about people, elves, magicians and other supernatural beings living in Chandal. Of course, in this case, the original meaning of the word is lost.
Afterword
In the modern world there is no need to use a shandal. Therefore, this word was lost, disappeared.
To know all the obsolete words, of course, is impossible. But some of them are still worth understanding. Yes, shandals are old inventions. This word is not used today, but it, nevertheless, is often found in various literary works. Such knowledge may come in handy.