Robe
[rəʊb] or [rob]
Definition
(v. t.) An outer garment; a dress of a rich, flowing, and elegant style or make; hence, a dress of state, rank, office, or the like.
(v. t.) A skin of an animal, especially, a skin of the bison, dressed with the fur on, and used as a wrap.
(v. t.) To invest with a robe or robes; to dress; to array; as, fields robed with green.
Edited by Leah
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Gown, dress.
v. a. Dress, clothe, invest, array.
Typed by Josephine
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Invest, clothe, deck, drape, array
ANT:Divest, disrobe, unclothe, denude, strip
Edited by Bonita
Definition
n. a gown or outer garment: a dress of dignity or state: a rich dress: a dressed skin: the largest and strongest tobacco-leaves: the early form of the chasuble.—v.t. to dress clothe.—v.i. to assume official vestments.—ns. Robe′-de-cham′bre a dressing-gown; Robe′-māk′er a maker of official robes; Rob′ing the act of putting on ceremonious apparel: a trimming on women's garments; Rob′ing-room a room in which those wearing official robes as lawyers &c. put them on.—Master of the robes an officer having the charge of the sovereign's robes; The robe or The long robe the legal profession.
Typist: Murray
Examples
- He saw the girl's cropped head disappear with a jerk under the robe and then he saw the horseman coming through the trees. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Robert Jordan lay in the robe beside the girl Maria who was still sleeping. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- His robe filled with air and stood out all around him like a balloon. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The open head of the robe was protected by the rock wall of the cliff. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- She knelt to spread and roll the robe, then changed her mind and stood up and shook it so it flapped. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Fernando had gone out with him and stood a moment where Robert Jordan had spread the sleeping robe. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Out came Meg, with gray horsehair hanging about her face, a red and black robe, a staff, and cabalistic signs upon her cloak. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- So she went on in her neutral tone, as if she had been remarking on baby's robes. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- And the Brahmins knelt and hid their faces in their robes. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The two gentlemen, refreshed by their bath and a hearty meal, were now arrayed in loose, flowing robes of white wool, similar to that of Justinian. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- They relate how he began to wear the robes and tiara of a Persian monarch. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The gentlemen were dressed in the very latest Paris fashions, and the robes of the ladies glinted among the trees like so many snowflakes. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- But all the later emperors after Diocletian wore diadems and magnificent robes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There in the wardrobe hung those wonderful robes--pink and blue and many-tinted. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Double sorrow--sadness, bred in Cimmerian caves, robed my soul in a mourning garb. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- So I turned at the door: I saw a robed and veiled figure, so unlike my usual self that it seemed almost the image of a stranger. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Most of the young demoiselles are robed in a cloud of white from head to foot, though many trick themselves out more elaborately. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- They looked down on the deep valley robed in May raiment; on varied meads, some pearled with daisies, and some golden with king-cups. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I stood about three yards from a tall, sable-robed, snowy-veiled woman. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Forth-riding from the formless folds of the mist dawns on him the brightest vision--a green-robed lady, on a snow-white palfrey. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The ministers of Sainte Guillotine are robed and ready. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Mr. Stryver had left them in the passages, to shoulder his way back to the robing-room. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- There was none of this robing of greed and crime about Napoleon. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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