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n. A type of native gown worn in parts of Central Asia.
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A khalat ( / ALA-LC: xalat; more commonly known as a chapaan) is a loose long-sleeved outer silk or cotton robe common in Central Asia, Pakistan and northern India and worn both by men and women, although in differing styles.
Historically, richly adorned khalats have been used as honorific awards, similarly to mantle. The word khalat/khilat was also used to denote the ceremony of awarding the honorific robe. Such social aspects of clothing have been known in many societies. By the 19th century in British India the word khillat had come to mean any gift of money or goods awarded by the Government of India in return for service from tributary princes, khans and tribal leaders.
Central Asian khalats can be a thin, decorative garment, or thick, full length robe, a good protection both from daytime/summer heat and night/winter cold.
The word khalat is one of many borrowings to be found in Russian, where it has come to be a generic term for various robes, and in Romanian (the Romanian word is "halat"): dressing gown, bathrobe, smock (e.g., doctor's smock, patient's smock), camouflage cloak, etc.
Usage examples of "khalat".
Having reached the expanses of desert that formed the eastern end of the Kothian kingdom, he had paused to buy a khalat and some bread and meat at a dingy, dirty-white border village.
He wore the white khalat of the desert Zuagir, though the garment was dirty and torn to shreds.
The Zuagir would hurry with flapping khalat to his horse, spring into the saddle, and urge the mount into a mad race out over the desert.
He wrapped his khalat about him and strode away, hiding his face under the kaffia.
Arrows had ripped his white khalat, exposing the glittering black mail that clad his lion-thewed torso.
These, his mail shirt and khalat, and his broadsword were all that his erstwhile comrades had left him.
The Turkish vest and voluminous khalat could not conceal the lines of massive strength.
The velvet vest, voluminous silken trousers, khalat and shagreen boots, gifts from a contemptuous sultan, were nowhere in evidence.
His boots were stitched with gilt thread, his turban was of rose-colored silk, and his girdled khalat was gaudily striped.
The other was dressed like them in a white, girdled khalat and a flowing head-dress which, banded about the temples with a triple circlet of braided camelhair, fell to his shoulders.
A man above the average height, appearing taller still because of that black robe he wore--the yakhair khalat of the Tibetan common people, but longer and clean.
In a couple of minutes, the ten Turanians lay in pools of blood, though eight silent figures in bloodstained khalats bore witness to the ferocity of the defense.
The silk sleeves of their khalats glimmered, transformed their lines into a many-colored horizon.
Splendid in their silk khalats and golden corselets, the Grandees of Gedea and Shigek yet again assailed the iron men.
Knights wearing Enathpanean vests, cassocks, and khalats milled on horses that looked like starved nags.