dolman

noun

1. A long, loose garment with narrow sleeves and an opening in the front, generally worn by Turks.

   “Feriz Beg, on discarding his dolman, rolled up the sleeves of his fine shirt of Turkish linen to his shoulders, and drew from its sheath his fine Damascus scimitar, which was scarce two inches broad, and so flexible that you could have bent it double in every direction like a watch-spring.”

   “[I]n the second half of the century the long Turkish dolman disappears completely and tight, knee-length dolmans and mentes become general.”

   “The quintessentially Hungarian item of men's clothing was the dolman. This flowing garment, open in the front, replaced the waistcoat after the Renaissance.”

2. A short, close-fitting, heavily braided military jacket, usually worn under a pelisse, originally by hussars.

   “Robert nodded in reply to her question and not only took off his helmet but unhooked his pelisse, threw it on a chair, and unbuttoned the top of his dolman.”

   “Sitting on the chair's edge, he shrugged a shoulder until his dolman fell into place, then balanced his helmet on his knee like a pampered pet.”

   “He wore his dolman slung over one shoulder and clasped at his throat with a gold chain, and carried his Hussar's bearskin busby under his right arm.”

   “The uniform jacket with several rows of buttons and a horizontal braid across the front originally worn by the Hussars was also called a dolman.”

3. A woman's garment with wide capelike sleeves.

   “She, who never went out, found a bonnet that I had never seen before, put a dolman over her best silk dress, locked the guinea fowl safe in her kitchen and got into a hack with Henry, her smelling-bottle and her cap, in which was a new bunch of everlasting flowers.”

   “She turned slowly – she was dressed in tussore and a dolman.”

   “In general, dolmans are recognizable for their winged kimono-like sleeves and T shape. But the one truism about dolmans is this—there is no standard!”

   “The dolman mantle, a popular women's fashion in Western Europe and the United States during the 1870s and 1880s, was characterized by loose sling-like sleeves cut with the body of the garment resembling a half jacket, half cape.”

name

1. A surname.