خمص

خَمِيصَةٌ خميص خميصه خميصة A [ garment of the kind called ] كِسَاآء, 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 مُلَاآءَة 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 كِسَاآء: 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, اـِذَا 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.]