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/ˈdɒlmən/ · noun
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.
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.
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.
Use dolman when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Dolman means A long, loose garment with narrow sleeves and an opening in the front, generally worn by Turks..
Common synonyms include dolman jacket.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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