simar

Definition

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

Etymology

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

Example Sentences

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