simar

A woman's loose, long dress or robe; sometimes specifically, an undergarment or chemise.

Noun

  1. A woman's loose, long dress or robe; sometimes specifically, an undergarment or chemise.
    • [T]heir beautiful tresses were braided and incensed; and they were wrapped in symars whiter than alabaster. - 1786, [William Beckford], translated by [Samuel Henley], An Arabian Tale, from an Unpublished Manuscript: […]...
    • [T]he profusion of her sable tresses, which, each arranged in its own spiral of twisted curls, fell down upon as much of a snow-white neck and bosom as a simarre of the richest Persian silk, […] - 1819 December 20...
  2. A type of ecclesiastical vestment, similar to a cassock.
  3. A light covering; a cloak or mantle.

Origin

Borrowed from French simarre (“type of robe”), from Italian cimarra, zimarra. Doublet of chimer.

Forms

simars simarre symar