noun
- a woman's loose, lightweight garment or jacket worn over a dress, popular in the 17th and 18th centuries
Usage: archaic; historical fashion term
Examples
- She wore a silk cymar over her gown at the ball.
- The cymar was a fashionable garment among wealthy women in the 1700s.
- Her blue cymar complemented the formal dress beneath it.
- The museum displayed a well-preserved cymar from the Georgian era.