Definition of "talma" [tal•ma]

• A kind of large cape, or short, full cloak. (noun)

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• "Such as it was I feel again its majesty on those occasions on which I dragged -- if I must here once more speak for myself only -- after Albany cousins through its courts of edification: I remember being very tired and cold and hungry there, in a little light drab and very glossy or shiny "talma" breasted with rather troublesome buttonhole-embroideries; though concomitantly conscious that I was somehow in Europe, since everything about me had been "brought over," which ought to have been consoling, and seems in fact to have been so in some degree, inasmuch as both my own pain and the sense of the cousinly, the Albany, headaches quite fade in that recovered presence of big"
• "He lays aside his talma, places his gloves on the centre-table, which is heaped with an infinite variety of delicately-enveloped missives and cards, all indicative of her position in fashionable society."
• "Charleston hotel, the tall figure of a man wrapped in a massive talma."