Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A woman's garment having capelike arm pieces.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A long robe, open in front, and having narrow sleeves buttoned at the wrist, worn by the Turks over their other garments.
  • noun The uniform jacket of a hussar, richly ornamented with braid, and peculiar in that it is worn like a cloak with one or both sleeves hanging loose.
  • noun An outer garment worn by women, with a cape or hanging piece over the arm instead of a sleeve; a kind of mantle.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A long robe or outer garment, with long sleeves, worn by the Turks.
  • noun A woman's cloak with capelike pieces instead of sleeves.
  • noun The uniform jacket of many European hussar regiments, worn like a cloak, fastened with a cord or chain, and with sleeves hanging loose.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A loose garment with narrow sleeves and an opening in the front
  • noun A woman’s garment with wide capelike sleeves

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a hussar's jacket worn over the shoulders
  • noun a woman's cloak with dolman sleeves

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French, from German, from Hungarian dolmany, from Turkish dōlāmān, robe, from dolamak, to wind.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

French, from German, from Hungarian dolmány, ultimately from Turkish dolaman.

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  • "In lowcorsaged opal balldress and elbowlength ivory gloves, wearing a sabletrimmed brick quilted dolman, a comb of brilliants and panache of osprey in her hair."

    Joyce, Ulysses, 15

    February 5, 2007