† moldave Obs.
[f. Moldavia: see next.]
1. A long outer garment worn by ladies during the first half of the 19th cent.
| 1800 [Mrs. St. George] Jrnl. Visit Germany (1861) 95 She [the Queen of Prussia] wore..a moldave (simply a body, train, and short sleeves) of pale pink silk. |
2. With capital initial. = Moldavian n.
| 1851 Borrow Lavengro xlvii, ‘He is a Moldave’, said the Armenian. |