Lexicographical Neighbors of Simarres
Literary usage of Simarres
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"... the brocaded simarres, and the embroidered silks, with which Jordaens and
Rubens envelop their bleeding martyrs and their sorrowful Madonnas. ..."
2. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1869)
"... vinous and intense, like Titian's simarres, tender greens drowned in dark-blue,
sea-green shades striped with silver or flashing with sparks, undulate, ..."
3. Lectures on Art by Hippolyte Taine (1889)
"... embroidered simarres and golden brocades, groups of naked figures, modern
costumes and antique draperies, an inexhaustible accumulation of arms, ..."
4. Italy: Florence and Venice by Hippolyte Taine (1869)
"The grand draped old men with bald brows are patrician kings of the Archipelago,
barbaric sultans who, trailing their silken simarres, receive tribute and ..."
5. The Warner Library by Charles Dudley Warner, Harry Morgan Ayres, John William Cunliffe, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1917)
"... the brocaded simarres, and the embroidered silks, with which Jordaens and
Rubens envelop their bleeding martyrs and their sorrowful Madonnas. ..."
6. The Ideal in Art by Hippolyte Taine (1874)
"simarres, woven with black and silver, undulate by the side of velvet skirts
embroidered with gold; collars of lace encircle the satiny whiteness of necks; ..."
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