Advertisement - Continue reading below

Definition of "doliman" []

  • Same as dolman, 1. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

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