Terms vs Khalat - What's the difference?
terms | khalat |
A type of native gown worn in parts of Central Asia.
*1870 , , letter, 12 Sep 1870, University of Washington Press 2003 (Vagabond Life ), p. 93:
*:Russian faces and dress have almost entirely disappeared and in their places are the enormous fur caps, long khalats , daggers and pistols of the swarthy Daghestan mountaineers and the black stupid faces of the Kalmuck Tartars.
*1966 , Elizabeth E. Bacon, Central Asians Under Russian Rule , Cornell 1980, p. 63:
*:The khalat was held in place with a girdle; among the upper classes, the richness of the buckle gave a clue to the rank of the wearer.
*1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 330:
*:Guards armed with scimitars and wearing long, brightly coloured khalats , or silk coats, stood at its gates, while an excited crowd of Khivans lined the way to see the giant figure of the Englishman pass.
