Meaning of simar | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A woman's loose, long dress or robe; sometimes specifically, an undergarment or chemise.
   archaic, historical
2. A type of ecclesiastical vestment, similar to a cassock.
3. A light covering; a cloak or mantle.
   obsolete

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Examples

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

Vathek

“[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, […]”

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