simitar

British  

/ ˈsɪmɪtə /

noun

1. a rare spelling of scimitar

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Example Sentences

Beyond, the roads spread out again, from their convergence in the little settlement, and ran abroad once more between hedges of roses and oleanders, across the River Pharbar, curving midway across the vale like a simitar dropped in the green, through crowding gardens, among low-lying roofs, past spreading villas of the rich, on to a glittering vision of towers, walls, cupolas, white as frost on the head of Mount Tabor in the morning.

From Project Gutenberg

As the isle receded and the point of land loomed bigger before them, the girl gazed straight ahead; but the man looked back: to the sands of the little cove, a pale simitar in the dragon-like mouth of the rock; toward the tower, near which he fancied he could see a figure, turned from them—seaward—where, far out, a ship might just be discerned, a dim outline on the horizon.

From Project Gutenberg

Fricka, wife of the King of the Gods, in the earthly simulacrum of a Polish soprano named Olzewska, stood in the Vienna Staatsoper, lifting a curve of song that flashed over the dark orchestration like a silver simitar.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then he gave them a sign to invest his son, Jahangir, with his turban and robes, and to gird him with his favorite simitar.

From Project Gutenberg

Robed in white muslin, his belt, simitar, dagger-hilt, and scarf literally blazed with diamonds.

From Project Gutenberg