a. and sb. (Also Stamboline, Stamboulina.) [f. Stamboul, Turkish name of Constantinople + -INE.] a. adj. (with capital.) Of or pertaining to Stamboul. b. sb. A long frock-coat worn by Turkish officials.
1811. Byron, Ch. Har., II. App. D ii. note. Any of his Stamboline acquaintance.
1840. Morning Chron., 8 Dec., 4/3. Will the Stamboline Turks, then, ameliorate this condition of things?
1884. Graphic, 4 Oct., 358/2. The ordinary Turkish or Stamboulina dress.
1886. C. Roberts, in Pall Mall Gaz., 22 Sept., 13/2. The gentry, dressed in coloured stamboulines or black caftans and fez, occupied the pit.
1900. Harper’s Mag., Jan., 254/1. The former [stambouline] is a queer single-breasted frock-coat, designed for all state occasions.
