Definition of "barma"
barma
noun
plural barmy or barmas
A regal Russian mantle or neckpiece made of gold, encrusted with diamonds and other gems.
Quotations
The tsar kissed the regalia, and covering the cross and the barma, gave them on the dish to the protopope, and the crown he gave to Lucian Stepan.
1873, William Palmer, editor, Testimonies Concerning the Patriarch Nicon, the Tsar, and the Boyars, from the Travels of the Patriarch Macarius of Antioch, London: Trübner and Co., […], page 390
The barmy consisted of panels of lace fastened together to form a circular fabric, which when laid on the tsar’s shoulders over his robe looked like a broad collar.
1991, Paul D. Steeves, editor, The Modern Encyclopedia of Religions in Russia and the Soviet Union: Apocrypha-Basilians, Academic International Press, page 221