simar

plural simars · alternative simarre · alternative symar

1. archaichistoricalA woman's loose, long dress or robe; sometimes specifically, an undergarment or chemise.First known use 17th c.

   [T]heir beautiful tresses were braided and incensed; and they were wrapped in symars whiter than alabaster.

   Vathek

   1786, [William Beckford], translated by [Samuel Henley], An Arabian Tale, from an Unpublished Manuscript: […] [Vathek], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC

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   [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 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter VIII, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, pages 146–147

2. ChristianityA type of ecclesiastical vestment, similar to a cassock.First known use 18th c.
3. obsoleteA light covering; a cloak or mantle.First known use 19th c.