Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A loose, light robe, worn by women: only in poetical use, without precise meaning.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A woman's long dress or robe; also light covering; a scarf.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun originally A woman's loose, long
dress orrobe . - noun by analogy A light
covering ; ascarf .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Havas dressed in a light simar and wearing his crown of rock-salt, from which there strayed two tresses of hair as twisted as the horns of Ammon; and Hamilcar in a violet tunic figured with gold vine branches, and with a battle-sword at his side.
Salammbo 2003
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Salammbo walked to the edge of the terrace; her eyes swept the horizon for an instant, and then were lowered upon the sleeping town, while the sigh that she heaved swelled her bosom, and gave an undulating movement to the whole length of the long white simar which hung without clasp or girdle about her.
Salammbo 2003
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She kept advancing, clothed in her white trailing simar, and with her large eyes fastened on the veil.
Salammbo 2003
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Salammbo unfastened her earrings, her necklace, her bracelets, and her long white simar; she unknotted the band in her hair, shaking the latter for a few minutes softly over her shoulders to cool herself by thus scattering it.
Salammbo 2003
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Perhaps there have been simar days of blood and slaughter in the struggles for liberation in other countries.
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Now she drew off the brown mantle (which hung to her heels - and beyond, when she was not careful of it, so the hem dragged in the dust) and smoothed the raw, yellow-brown linen of her simar.
The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980
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Together with false jewelry and trinkets of the sort such men give their paramours, it carried a certain amount of women's clothing; and though my money had been much depleted by the dinner we had never returned to the Inn of Lost Loves to enjoy, I was able to buy Dorcas a simar.
The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980
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However, at that moment a cardinal came in, clad in town costume -- his sash and his stockings red, but his simar black, with a red edging and red buttons.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete ��mile Zola 1871
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However, at that moment a cardinal came in, clad in town costume -- his sash and his stockings red, but his simar black, with a red edging and red buttons.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 1 ��mile Zola 1871
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However, at that moment a cardinal came in, clad in town costume -- his sash and his stockings red, but his simar black, with a red edging and red buttons.
The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris ��mile Zola 1871
qms commented on the word simar
As best I can determine some people (Americans?) would pronounce this word to rhyme with "gym bar." others (Brits?) would rhyme it with "dimmer." God only knows what an Australian would do with it. I write "would pronounce" because I have my doubts that the word has ever been audibly uttered in earnest, so it is all guesswork.
Nevertheless the Wikipedia article on simar is worth a read for the sake of an encounter with the gloriously named author of a book on priestly vestiture - John Abel Felix Prosper Nainfa. Now there's a name to conjure with.
It's an elusive sort of a frock.
The caftan, the toga and smock
Are not quite a simar -
A muumuu but slimmer,
A garment that sways when you walk.
October 4, 2014