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Robe   /roʊb/   Listen
Robe

noun
1.
Any loose flowing garment.
2.
Outerwear consisting of a long flowing garment used for official or ceremonial occasions.  Synonym: gown.
verb
(past & past part. robed; pres. part. robing)
1.
Clothe formally; especially in ecclesiastical robes.  Synonym: vest.
2.
Cover as if with clothing.  Synonyms: cloak, clothe, drape.



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"Robe" Quotes from Famous Books



... they worked at their trade wherever they went. Nothing could be more commonplace. Who could dream that this travel-stained man, going from one tentmaker's door to another, seeking for work, was carrying the future of the world beneath his robe! ...
— The Life of St. Paul • James Stalker
... seat of his yellow taxicab, Spike Walters drew a heavy lap-robe more closely about his husky figure and shivered miserably. Fortunately, the huge bulk of the station to his right protected him in a large measure from the shrieking wintry winds. Mechanically ...
— Midnight • Octavus Roy Cohen
... and beyond the meadow rose up to the skies a mountain whose top was sharp-pointed like a spear. For more than halfway up it was clad with heather, and when the heather was in bloom it looked like a purple robe falling from the shoulders of the mountain down to its feet. Above the heather it was bare and gray, but when the sun was sinking in the sea, its last rays rested on the bare mountain top and made it gleam ...
— The Golden Spears - And Other Fairy Tales • Edmund Leamy
... head-dress and other garments where Simon Sprott had placed them. But in the early morning Rube Carter awoke to see him wearing the doeskin robe and moccasins, and in the act of covering his head with ...
— Kiddie the Scout • Robert Leighton
... from the lean-to where they had prepared for the night, Jacqueline a tall sprite between her squat, thick-bodied companions, a heavy rope of bronze hair over each shoulder, small feet showing bare and white beneath the severe robe of gray flannel which was the nearest approach to a negligee known to Mrs. Kildare's daughters. The atmosphere of Storm did not lend itself to the art of ...
— Kildares of Storm • Eleanor Mercein Kelly


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