simar

American  

[si-mahr] / sɪˈmɑr /

noun

1. Also cymar a loose, lightweight jacket or robe for women, fashionable in the 17th and 18th centuries.

2. zimarra.

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simar British  

/ sɪˈmɑː /

noun

1. a variant spelling of cymar

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Etymology

Origin of simar

1635–45; earlier simarre < French < Italian zimarra “gown” < Spanish zamarra “sheepskin coat,” zamarro “sheepskin” < Basque zamar

Example Sentences

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 Hugo, Victor

Gentlemen," cried the coadjutor, tightening his sash, which he wore, after the fashion of the ancient military prelates, over his archiepiscopal simar, "there's the enemy approaching.

From Twenty Years After by Dumas père, Alexandre

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 Couperus, Louis

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 Flaubert, Gustave

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