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

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

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

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

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