shambar

1. uncountableA soup originating in Peru, made of wheat grains, fava beans, green peas, chickpeas and dry beans.

   For the noon meal they serve the traditional shambar, a corn soup with pieces of potatoes, beans, and pigskin, spiced with a large number of condiments.

   1975, Robert Jerome Smith, The Art of the Festival, as Exemplified by the Fiesta to the Patroness of Otuzco, La Virgen de la Puerta, page 110

plural shambars

1. A ceremonial veil worn in Palestine.

   Women of the region wore a shambar or veil made of black crepe material either dyed red or, more frequently, heavily embroidered in red.

   2013, Jill Condra, Encyclopedia of National Dress: Traditional Clothing Around the World

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   In Bethlehem, until the end of the nineteenth century, the embroidered shambar was worn on festive occasions, replacing the everyday terbia. […] The shambars of most other areas were not embroidered.

   1979, Yedida Kalfon Stillman, Palestinian Costume and Jewelry, page 66

   Bethlehem women preferred to wear a simpler shambar, without a naqleh, and ornamented only with a dikkeh which had the added refinement that the ends of its fringe were delicately knotted.

   1994, Shelagh Weir, Palestinian Costume, page 166