cymar
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of cymar
C17: variant of simar, from French simarre, perhaps ultimately from Basque zamar sheepskin
Example Sentences
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She was not attired in her white cymar; nor was her head wreathed with monumental amaranths;--health was on her cheek, fond smiles on her pouting lip, and tender love swimming in her melting glance.
From A Love Story by A Bushman
His embroidered cymar, or robe, falls about him in rich folds as he clasps his arms about the tiny swaddled figure.
From Rembrandt A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the Painter with Introduction and Interpretation by Estelle M. (Estelle May) Hurll
She gazes still, as a maiden will, On that beauteous eastern star: You might see the throb of her bosom’s sob Beneath the white cymar!
From The Bon Gaultier Ballads by Richard Doyle
Let us believe her the habitant of some bright planet, such as she pointed out to us in the Bay of Naples--a seraph with a golden lyre--and shrouded in a white cymar!
From A Love Story by A Bushman
The worthy Clerk stated aghast at the vision; the purple robe, the cymar, the coronet,—above all, the smile; no, there was no mistaking her; it was the blessed St. Bridget herself!
From Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers by Various
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