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  • noun Plural form of dolman.

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Examples

  • Knowing how easily uniforms wore out on campaign, I think that it is reasonable to assume that some of the dolmans, from the pre-1804 period, would have been wearing out and needing replacement by the time of the Jena-Auerstadt campaign in 1806.

    Archive 2008-01-01 Der Alte Fritz 2008

  • We perceive vast fluctuations in that fog, a dizzy mirage, paraphernalia of war almost unknown today, pendant colbacks, floating sabre-taches, cross-belts, cartridge-boxes for grenades, hussar dolmans, red boots with

    Les Miserables 2008

  • At nine the evening guests began to arrive, and now the throng was of a different complexion — girls in mauve and cream-white and salmon-pink and silver-gray, laying aside lace shawls and loose dolmans, and the men in smooth black helping them.

    The Financier 2004

  • Thus I stared at balmacaans and surtouts, dolmans and jerkins of paduasoy, matelasse, and a hundred other costly fabrics without ever going into the places that displayed them, or even stopping to examine them.

    The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980

  • Aunt Susan was a woman with fine eyes and teeth, as well as a charming manner, but her style of dressing dated back to the eighties -- full skirts, flat hats with strings, beaded plush dolmans, etc.

    Ethel Hollister's Second Summer as a Campfire Girl Irene Elliott Benson

  • At nine the evening guests began to arrive, and now the throng was of a different complexion -- girls in mauve and cream-white and salmon-pink and silver-gray, laying aside lace shawls and loose dolmans, and the men in smooth black helping them.

    The Financier, a novel Theodore Dreiser 1908

  • But finally he was coaxed upstairs by Margaret and a box of candy, and, word havin 'been sent down that he was asleep, Sam got out his plug hat, and Grace and Cousin Harriet got on their fur-lined dolmans and knit clouds, and was ready for the hack.

    The Depot Master Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • My eyes fell upon the grey and silver dolmans, with the leopard-skin shabraques, and at that instant the years fell away from me and I saw my own beautiful men and horses, even as they had swept behind their young colonel, in the pride of our youth and our strength, just forty years ago.

    Adventures Of Gerard Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1903

  • My eyes fell upon the grey and silver dolmans, with the leopard-skin shabraques, and at that instant the years fell away from me and I saw my own beautiful men and horses, even as they had swept behind their young colonel, in the pride of our youth and our strength, just forty years ago.

    The Adventures of Gerard Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1903

  • My eyes fell upon the grey and silver dolmans, with the leopard-skin shabraques, and at that instant the years fell away from me and I saw my own beautiful men and horses, even as they had swept behind their young colonel, in the pride of our youth and our strength, just forty years ago.

    The Adventures of Gerard Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1903

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