simar

Borrowed from French simarre (“type of robe”), from Italian cimarra, zimarra. Doublet of chimer.

simar (plural simars)

1. (archaic, historical) A woman's loose, long dress or robe; sometimes specifically, an undergarment or chemise. [from 17th c.]
   • 1786, [William Beckford], translated by [Samuel Henley], An Arabian Tale, from an Unpublished Manuscript: […], new edition, London: […] W. Clarke, […], published 1809, →OCLC:

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

   • 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter VIII, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, pages 146–147:

     [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, […]

2. (Christianity) A type of ecclesiastical vestment, similar to a cassock. [from 18th c.]
3. (obsolete) A light covering; a cloak or mantle. [19th c.]

• simarre, symar

• Mairs, Maris, Masri, Misra, RAIMs, Samir, amirs, raims, sirma

• summar

From Arabic سَمَار (samār).

• IPA^(key): /sɪˈmaːr/

simar m (collective, singulative simara)

1. soft rush (Juncus effusus)