Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as dolman, 1.

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Examples

  • These little adventures occasioned me to make some observations, which of course were very ingenious and profound, upon the subject of laws; and I easily perceived that it was with them as it is with our garments: I must wear a doliman at Constantinople, and a coat at Paris.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Thy hat was not made to give laws to my turban; thy ruff and thy curtailed doublets are not to command my doliman.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • The men were clothed in a similar manner: with them were carried in the girdle the purse, the handkerchief, and the poniard: a white, and sometimes a coloured, turban covered the head; and over the Turkish doliman they wore in summer a wide and flowing white robe, and in winter the _albornos_ or African mantle.

    History of the Moors of Spain M. Florian

  • _doliman_ or Turkish dress with close sleeves, of wide trousers and

    History of the Moors of Spain M. Florian

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  • dolman

    November 25, 2010