saraphan
Noun. A Russian girls' dress formerly worn by peasants, now used as a costume or as a dress for dolls. It is a long dress running from just below the armpits to the ankles, held up by wide straps over the shoulders and has a wide skirt. Usually it is decorated with a colorful vertical embroidered strip down the front and one or more horizontal rings just above the hemline.This is an unmodified, but possibly outdated, definition from Wiktionary and used here under the Creative Commons license. Wiktionary is a great resource. If you like it too, please donate to Wikimedia.
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