dolman
Americannoun
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a woman's mantle with capelike arm pieces instead of sleeves.
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a long outer robe worn by Turks.
noun
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a long Turkish outer robe
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Also called: dolman jacket. a hussar's jacket worn slung over the shoulder
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a woman's cloak with voluminous capelike sleeves
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of dolman
1575–85; syncopated variant of doliman, dolyman < Turkish dolaman (obsolete), derivative of dolamak to wind round
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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
She wore an old-fashioned plush dolman heavily beaded and covered with fringe.
From How Ethel Hollister Became a Campfire Girl by Benson, Irene Elliott
She put her arms about the bravely upstanding figure in its old-fashioned dolman.
From Suzanna Stirs the Fire by Blake, Emily Calvin
His short embroidered dolman reached to his hips, and was confined by a costly girdle, wherefrom depended a little pouch containing pen and ink, while his watch-chain dangled from his breeches' pocket.
From The Strange Story of Rab R?by by J?kai, M?r
The bullet and the moth have torn And riddled well the dolmans dim.
From Enamels and Cameos and other Poems by Lee, Agnes
And he pointed to a group of horsemen, whose waving plumes and floating dolmans were seen at a little distance off in the plain.
From The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Lever, Charles James
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 Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
Instead of peasants, we see body-guards, in yellow dolmans and scarlet hose, swaggering before the doors.
From 'Midst the Wild Carpathians by J?kai, M?r
The dolmans that open in front and fall low at each side are admirable also, according to his ideas.
From Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society by Cooke, Maud C.
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