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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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
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
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 Richard Doyle
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 Robert Montgomery Bird
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