cymar

British  

/ sɪˈmɑː /

noun

1. a woman's short fur-trimmed jacket, popular in the 17th and 18th centuries

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Etymology

Origin of cymar

C17: variant of simar, from French simarre, perhaps ultimately from Basque zamar sheepskin

Example Sentences

She gazes still, as a maiden will,   On that beauteous eastern star: You might see the throb of her bosom’s sob   Beneath the white cymar!

From The Bon Gaultier Ballads by Doyle, Richard

The cymar was knotted round her bosom with a modest girdle, and left bare two arms prettily moulded, on which shone bracelets of gold, fantastically wrought.

From Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico by Bird, Robert Montgomery

To make matters still worse, she had chosen a vest or cymar of a pale green silk, which gave her, on the whole, a ghastly and even spectral appearance.

From Quentin Durward by Scott, Walter, Sir

The worthy Clerk stated aghast at the vision; the purple robe, the cymar, the coronet,—above all, the smile; no, there was no mistaking her; it was the blessed St. Bridget herself!

From Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers by Various

His embroidered cymar, or robe, falls about him in rich folds as he clasps his arms about the tiny swaddled figure.

From Rembrandt A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the Painter with Introduction and Interpretation by Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May)