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dolman
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{n} (not a dolmen!!)
tags: [fashion]
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Definition:1. a short, tight, braided military jacket worn by hussers2. a woman's garment featuring loose, cape-like sleeves
image: By Georg Philipp Schmitt (1808–1873)image 2: By Laure Noel (1827-1878), for Harper's Bazaar, published Nov 1871.
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We perceive vast fluctuations in that fog, a dizzy mirage, paraphernalia of war almost unknown to-day, pendant colbacks, floating sabre-taches, cross-belts, cartridge-boxes for grenades, hussar dolmans, red boots with a thousand wrinkles, heavy shakos garlanded with torsades, the almost black infantry of Brunswick mingled with the scarlet infantry of England
Victor Hugo. Les Misérables
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MRS YELVERTON BARRY: (In lowcorsaged opal balldress and elbowlength ivory gloves, wearing a sabletrimmed brickquilted dolman, a comb of brilliants and panache of osprey in her hair)James Joyce. Ulysses
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