Banyan (clothing)
（重定向自Robe de chambre）
![Ward Nicholas Boylston in a brilliant green banyan and a cap, painted by John Singleton Copley, 1767.](/Images/godic/202502/07/J_S_Copley_-_Nicolas_Boylston3547.jpg")
![Fitted banyan, 1750–60.](/Images/godic/202502/07/Man's_fitted_banyan_1750-17603547.jpg")
A banyan (through Portuguese banian and Arabic بنيان, banyān, from the Gujarati વાણિયો, vāṇiyo, meaning "merchant") is a garment worn by men in the 18th century influenced by Persian and Asian clothing.
Banyan is also commonly used in present day Indian English and other countries in the Indian Subcontinent to mean "vest" ("undershirt" in American English).