شَوْذَرٌ
Root: شذر
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شَوْذَرٌ
A [garment of the kind called] مِلْحَفَة: an arabicized word; from the Pers. جَادَرْ [or چَادَرْ or چَادِرْ]. And i. q.
إِتْبٌ; i. e. A [garment of the kind called] بُرْد, which is slit [in the middle], and worn by a woman, who throws it upon her neck, [putting her head through the slit;] having neither sleeves nor an opening at the bosom: or [a garment] like the
صِدَار, [which is said by some to be the same as the
إِتْب,] worn by a young woman: a garment which a woman wears beneath her
ثَوْب: a certain garment which a woman and a girl wear, extending to the extremity of the upper half of the arm. [The modern چادر of Persia and El-'Irák seems to be generally what is commonly called in Egypt a “ miláyeh, ” correctly “ muláäh ” (مُلَآءَة), figured and described in my work on the Modern Egyptians: or, in some instances, a similar covering of plain white, or dark blue, cotton; the former of which is now called in Egypt an “ izár. ” ]
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