dolman

American  

[dohl-muhn, dol-] / ˈdoʊl mən, ˈdɒl- /

noun

• dolmans
  plural

1. a woman's mantle with capelike arm pieces instead of sleeves.

2. a long outer robe worn by Turks.

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dolman British  

/ ˈdɒlmən /

noun

1. a long Turkish outer robe

2. Also called: dolman jacket.  a hussar's jacket worn slung over the shoulder

3. a woman's cloak with voluminous capelike sleeves

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• dolmans
  plural

Etymology

Origin of dolman

1575–85; syncopated variant of doliman, dolyman < Turkish dolaman (obsolete), derivative of dolamak to wind round

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

dolman dolmans

De Gaulle, feigning to inspect the frogs on her dolman, replied: "Indeed! Madame."

From The Guardian ● Sep. 20, 2014

Here, briefly, are the highlights of this Government ruling: No bias or dolman sleeves.

From Time Magazine Archive

Over this tunic was a red velvet dolman with very short sleeves.

From The Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun by Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun

No lace adorns his jacket, no fringe of any sort sets off the caparison of his good steed; his neckerchief, which peeps out of his dolman, might almost be considered shabby.

From 'Midst the Wild Carpathians by M?r J?kai

Here was the impatient schimmel of some Hungarian hussar pawing the ground with restless eagerness, as his gay dolman slashed with gold glittered in the sun.

From Jack Hinton The Guardsman by Charles James Lever

Aunt Susan was a woman with fine eyes and teeth, as well as a charming manner, but her style of dressing dated back to the eighties—full skirts, flat hats with strings, beaded plush dolmans, etc.

From Ethel Hollister's Second Summer as a Campfire Girl by Irene Elliott Benson

Near the door stood a group of young men in short, strong, baggy knee-breeches and broad-buttoned pelisse-like dolmans.

From A Hungarian Nabob by R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet) Bain

He had, on his arrival, been provided with an ample wardrobe of clothes of all kinds, and to these were now added dolmans, cloaks, rugs, and most costly furs.

From A Jacobite Exile Being the Adventures of a Young Englishman in the Service of Charles the Twelfth of Sweden by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

At every gate, at every buttressed window, stand a couple of pages in crimson dolmans and tightly-fitting, cornflower-blue hose, richly garnished with silver-embroidered lace.

From 'Midst the Wild Carpathians by M?r J?kai

There they are—thousands of them, British matrons, plain, ordinary, commonplace creatures with dolmans, and bonnets far back on their heads, each with a family of—what? four, six, eight, sometimes ten children!

From A Question of Marriage by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey