[ad. L. tālār-is, f. tālus ankle: see -AR. So Ger. talar.] A long garment or robe, reaching down to the ankles.
1738. [G. Smith], Curious Relat., II. 363. A Blackmore on Horseback, dress’d in white Sattin, with a Scarlet Velvet Talar, embroidered with black Velvet.
1850. Leitch, trans. C. O. Müller’s Anc. Art, § 351, note. Zeus … has, like an Asiatic monarch, a sceptre and a broad magnificent talar.
1864. Engel, Mus. Anc. Nat., 334. He who led their devotions was a young man in a Polish talar.
1878. H. Phillips, trans. Hartman’s Danish Ballad, 3, in Poems trans. from the Span. & Ger., 60.
| The Bishop so young, in his Talar gray, | |
| Hath married the pair and a blessing did pray. |
