shambar

noun

1. (uncountable)A soup originating in Peru, made of wheat grains, fava beans, green peas, chickpeas and dry beans.

   “For the noon meal they serve the traditional shambar, a corn soup with pieces of potatoes, beans, and pigskin, spiced with a large number of condiments.”

2. A ceremonial veil worn in Palestine.

   “In Bethlehem, until the end of the nineteenth century, the embroidered shambar was worn on festive occasions, replacing the everyday terbia. […] The shambars of most other areas were not embroidered.”

   “Bethlehem women preferred to wear a simpler shambar, without a naqleh, and ornamented only with a dikkeh which had the added refinement that the ends of its fringe were delicately knotted.”

   “Women of the region wore a shambar or veil made of black crepe material either dyed red or, more frequently, heavily embroidered in red.”