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noun

Dolman n. (pl. dolmans)

A long robe or outer garment, with long sleeves, worn by the Turks. (Written also doliman)

A woman's cloak with capelike pieces instead of sleeves.

The uniform jacket of many European hussar regiments, worn like a cloak, fastened with a cord or chain, and with sleeves hanging loose.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... carving represents the Blessed Trinity under the figure of a single head with three faces within a wreath of oak-leaves with floriated spandrels.[44] We should like to pursue the subject of these Newbury clothiers and see Thomas Dolman's house, which is so fine and large and cost so much money that his workpeople used to sing ...

— Vanishing England • P. H. Ditchfield

... first four years he put on the civilian's gown, but without showing any intention to engage in the profession. About the time when he went to Oxford, the death of his grandmother devolved his affairs to the care of the Rev. Mr. Dolman, of Brome in Staffordshire, whose attention he always mentioned with gratitude. At Oxford he employed himself upon English poetry; and in 1737 published a small Miscellany, without his name. He then ...

— Lives of the Poets: Gay, Thomson, Young, and Others • Samuel Johnson

... leopard skins of last year? Well, now she wears moleskins—a queer dolman-shaped wrap of them, and a little hat with a dull blue feather, and she drapes a black lace veil over the hat and looks ...

— Contrary Mary • Temple Bailey

... never come back, when our youthful feet seemed scarce to touch the ground, and we lived in a sweet dreamland of our own creation! She honoured my courage, and she loved me for it. As she lay with her flushed cheek pillowed against the silk of my dolman, looking up at me with her wondering eyes, shining with love and admiration, she marvelled at the stories in which I gave her some pictures of the ...

— The Last Galley Impressions and Tales - Impressions and Tales • Arthur Conan Doyle

Words linked to "Dolman" : dolman sleeve, jacket