zamarras

They sat with their sponsors, in the galleries prepared, sambenitos, grey zamarras with painted flames and devils, corozas, tapers, and all the other paraphernalia of an auto, made up a woeful spectacle.

Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal Sarah J. Richardson

They sat with their sponsors, in the galleries prepared, sambenitos, grey zamarras with painted flames and devils, corozas, tapers, and all the other paraphernalia of an auto, made up a woeful spectacle.

Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal Richardson, Sarah J 1858

He wore a jerkin of sheepskin, called in Spanish _zamarras_, with breeches of the same as far down as his knee; his legs were bare.

Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society George Henry Borrow 1842

The writer is not an exclusive admirer of everything English; he does not advise his country people never to go abroad, never to study foreign languages, and he does not wish to persuade them that there is nothing beautiful or valuable in foreign literature; he only wishes that they would not make themselves fools with respect to foreign people, foreign languages or reading; that if they chance to have been in Spain, and have picked up a little Spanish, they would not affect the arts of Spaniards; that, if males they would not make Tom-fools of themselves by sticking cigars into their mouths, dressing themselves in zamarras, and saying

The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' George Henry Borrow 1842

The writer is not an exclusive admirer of everything English; he does not advise his country people never to go abroad, never to study foreign languages, and he does not wish to persuade them that there is nothing beautiful or valuable in foreign literature; he only wishes that they would not make themselves fools with respect to foreign people, foreign languages or reading; that if they chance to have been in Spain, and have picked up a little Spanish, they would not affect the airs of Spaniards; that if males they would not make Tomfools of themselves by sticking cigars into their mouths, dressing themselves in zamarras, and saying, carajo!

The Romany Rye George Henry Borrow 1842

a melancholy band of "relaxed" heretics, doomed to the fire or strangulation at the stake, and clothed in _zamarras_ of sheepskin, painted all over with devils and the portraits of their own faces surrounded by flames.

Fair Margaret Henry Rider Haggard 1890