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خَمِيصَةٌ خميص خميصه خميصة A [garment of the kind called] كِسَآء, black, square, and having عَلَمَانِ [i. e. two ornamental or coloured or figured borders]: (S, A, Mgh, K:) 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: (Msb:) if not bordered, it is not so called: (S, Msb:) 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: (Har p. 21:) 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. (TA.) El-Aashà says, “ إِِذَا جُرِّدَتْ يَوْمًا حَسِبْتَ خَمِيصَةً
عَلَيْهَا وَ جِرْيَالَ النَّضِيرِ الدُّلَامِصَا
” [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. (S.) [See also خَمِيسٌ, voce خِمْسٌ, near the end of the paragraph.]
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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