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‖ samarra1 Hist.|səˈmærə|
Also 8 samarre.
[med.L.: see simar.]
A kind of cassock, painted with flames, etc., worn on the way to execution by persons condemned by the Inquisition to be burnt.
1731Chandler tr. Limborch's Hist. Inquis. II. iv. xli. 295 They [prisoners designed for the fire] are..cloathed with the Sackcloth, or kind of Mantle, which some call the Sambenito, others the Samarra or Samaretta. 1736― Hist. Persec. 265 The infamous Samarre. 1841Barham Ingold. Leg. Ser. ii. Auto-da-fé, Each clothed in a garment more frightful by far, a Smock-frock sort of gaberdine, call'd a Samarra. |