żupan

plural żupans

1. A long lined garment of West or Central Asian origin which was widely worn by noblemen in the multiethnic Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and by the Ukrainian Cossacks in the Cossack Hetmanate.

   There is also some Turkish weaponry and a parade harness; there are ornate woven carpets and the woven belts with which the noblemen of Poland tie their long żupans.

   2021, Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Jennifer Croft, “Of how the world was born of God’s exhaustion”, in The Books of Jacob: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Riverhead Books, published 2022, →ISBN, page 872

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   From 1652 comes the information about a żupan, a light caftan worn under another overcoat. It emerges from the sources that in the 18th century the Jewish dress was partly overcome by the West-European fashion.

   1989, Proceedings of the Tenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, August 16-24, 1989, Jerusalem: World Union of Jewish Studies, published 1990, →OCLC, page 103

   The depiction of St. Casmir^([sic]) which appears in the aquatint is very similar; he is depicted kneeling on clouds (except in a mirror image). The differences are slight: the gesture of the left hand has been modified, the turn of his head is somewhat different, and as far as the clothing is concerned, the żupan is not covered with a floral pattern and the coat is not ermine-lined.

   2006, Kronika zamkowa, Warsaw: Arx Regia, Ośrodek Wydawniczy Zamku Królewskiego w Warszawie, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 50, column 2