خَمِيصَةٌ
Root: خمص
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خَمِيصَةٌ
A [garment of the kind called] كِسَآء, black, square, and having
عَلَمَانِ [i. e. two ornamental or coloured or figured borders]: or a black
كساء, having a border such as is above described (مُعْلَم) at each end, and which is of
خَزّ, [q. v.], or of wool: if not bordered, it is not so called: or, accord. to As, a
مُلَآءَة
of wool, or of
خَزّ, bordered (مُعْلَمَة); not unless bordered: so called because of its softness and thinness, and smallness of bulk when it is folded: Ahmad Ibn-Fáris says that it is the black
كِسَآء: and he says that it may be thus called because a man wraps himself with it, so that it is against his أَخْمَص, meaning by this his waist: pl. خَمَائِصُ: or خمائص are garments of
خَزّ, thick, black, and red, and having thick
أَعْلَام [or borders such as above described]; worn by people of old. El-Aashà says,
[When she is stripped of her clothing, any day, thou wouldst think there was upon her a khameesah, and the glistening redness of gold]: As says, he likens her [long and spreading] hair to a خميصة, which is black. [See also خَمِيسٌ, voce خِمْسٌ, near the end of the paragraph.]إِذَا جُرِّدَتْ يَوْمًا حَسِبْتَ خَمِيصَةً عَلَيْهَا وَ جِرْيَالَ النَّضِيرِ الدُّلَامِصَا
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