dolama

Noun

dolman (plural dolmans)

1. A long, loose garment with narrow sleeves and an opening in the front, generally worn by Turks.
   • Feriz Beg, on discarding his dolman, rolled up the sleeves of his fine shirt of Turkish linen to his shoulders, and drew from its sheath his fine Damascus scimitar, which was scarce two inches broad, and so flexible that you could have bent it double in every direction like a watch-spring.1903, Maurus Jókai, “Three Men”, in R[obert] Nisbet Bain, transl., The Slaves of the Padishah: (“The Turks in Hungary,” being the Sequel to “Midst the Wild Carpathians”): A Romance, 3rd edition...
2. A short, close-fitting, heavily braided military jacket, usually worn under a pelisse, originally by hussars.
   • Robert nodded in reply to her question and not only took off his helmet but unhooked his pelisse, threw it on a chair, and unbuttoned the top of his dolman.1983, Roberta Gellis, Fortune's Bride, New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing, →ISBN
3. A woman's garment with wide capelike sleeves.
   • She, who never went out, found a bonnet that I had never seen before, put a dolman over her best silk dress, locked the guinea fowl safe in her kitchen and got into a hack with Henry, her smelling-bottle and her cap, in which was a new bunch of everlasting flowers.1942, Emily Carr, “A Little Town and a Little Girl: Characters”, in The Book of Small (Project Gutenberg Australia; eBook no. 0400201.txt), Toronto: Oxford University Press, published February 2004...

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