simar
Americannoun
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Also cymar a loose, lightweight jacket or robe for women, fashionable in the 17th and 18th centuries.
noun
Etymology
Origin of simar
1635–45; earlier simarre < French < Italian zimarra “gown” < Spanish zamarra “sheepskin coat,” zamarro “sheepskin” < Basque zamar
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At one moment Charles X., attired in a cherry-coloured simar striped with gold, lay at full length at the Archbishop's feet.
From The Memoirs of Victor Hugo by Victor Hugo
She sobs, her head resting against a pillar, her hair hanging down, and her body wrapped in a long brown simar.
From The Temptation of St. Antony or A Revelation of the Soul by Gustave Flaubert
Tarrar hastened to Catullus, who thereupon arrived, sleepily rubbing his eyes, in a wide silk indoor simar; his grey hair stood in a tangle around his bald skull.
From The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt by Louis Couperus
She kept advancing, clothed in her white trailing simar, and with her large eyes fastened on the veil.
From Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert
A flow'r'd simar with golden fringe she wore, And at her back a golden quiver bore; Her flowing hair a golden caul restrains, A golden clasp the Tyrian robe sustains.
From The Aeneid English by Virgil
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