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

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

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

A sea-green cymar with short sleeves, displayed her exquisitely moulded arms to perfection, and was fastened by a girdle of emeralds over a yellow satin frock.

From Burlesques by Thackeray, William Makepeace

The cymar was knotted round her bosom with a modest girdle, and left bare two arms prettily moulded, on which shone bracelets of gold, fantastically wrought.

From Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico by Bird, Robert Montgomery

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