cymar

British  

/ sɪˈmɑː /

noun

1. a woman's short fur-trimmed jacket, popular in the 17th and 18th centuries

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Etymology

Origin of cymar

C17: variant of simar, from French simarre, perhaps ultimately from Basque zamar sheepskin

Example Sentences

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 Doyle, Richard

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 Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May)

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

To make matters still worse, she had chosen a vest or cymar of a pale green silk, which gave her, on the whole, a ghastly and even spectral appearance.

From Quentin Durward by Scott, Walter, Sir

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