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cymar|sɪˈmɑː(r)|
Also 7–9 simarre, (7 semeare), 8–9 simar, symar: see simarre.
[ad. F. simarre (OF. chamarre): see chimer1, simarre.]
1. A robe or loose light garment for women; esp. an under garment, a chemise.
Used somewhat vaguely in poetry and fiction.
[1641Ariana 201 A Persian simarre or mantle.] 1697Dryden Virgil, æneid iv. 196 A flow'r'd Cymarr with Golden Fringe, she wore. 1700― Cymon & Iphig. 100 Her body shaded with a slight cymarr. 1824J. H. Wiffen Tasso vi. xci, Whilst young Erminia laid her vests aside..And to her flowered cymar disrobed complete. 1825Scott Talism. iii, Disrobed of all clothing saving a cymar of white silk. a1839Praed Poems (1864) II. 22, I ask not what the vapours are That veil thee like a white cymar.
2. = chimer: spec. that of a bishop.
1673Bp. Parker Repr. Reh. Transp. 499 (T.) Vests, perukes, tunicks, cimarrs. 1762Hume Hist. Eng. II. xl. 380 The episcopal habit, the cymarre and rochette. 1868Milman St. Paul's xi. 266 Bishop Grindal preached..in his rochet and cymar. |