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noun

Robe n.

An outer garment; a dress of a rich, flowing, and elegant style or make; hence, a dress of state, rank, office, or the like. "Through tattered clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all."

A skin of an animal, especially, a skin of the bison, dressed with the fur on, and used as a wrap. (U.S.)

Master of the robes, an officer of the English royal household (when the sovereign is a king) whose duty is supposed to consist in caring for the royal robes.

Mistress of the robes, a lady who enjoys the highest rank of the ladies in the service of the English sovereign (when a queen), and is supposed to have the care her robes.

verb

Robe v. t. (past & past part. robed; pres. part. robing) To invest with a robe or robes; to dress; to array; as, fields robed with green. "The sage Chaldeans robed in white appeared." "Such was his power over the expression of his countenance, that he could in an instant shake off the sternness of winter, and robe it in the brightest smiles of spring."

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"Robe" Quotes from Famous Books

... the windows woke her the next morning. With a start she jumped up and put on her slippers and blue robe. With the healthy vigor of youth she had slept without once waking during the night, and not once had the thought of her patients disturbed her. Cautiously she tiptoed into the two bedrooms. Miss Charity and Miss Hope were sleeping quietly. A swift peep into ...

— Betty Gordon in the Land of Oil - The Farm That Was Worth a Fortune • Alice B. Emerson

... that creep The clouded sky along: O night! that trieth gold of love, This love is proven perfect! O lines that streak the touchstone sky, Plash forth true shining gold! O rose-leaf feet, go boldly! O night!—that lovest lovers— Thy softest robe of silence About these ...

— Indian Poetry • Edwin Arnold

... splendid perspective, and, for that matter, neither could London, which moreover I had known at a younger age still. Conveyed along the Rue St.-Honore while I waggled my small feet, as I definitely remember doing, under my flowing robe, I had crossed the Rue de Castiglione and taken in, for all my time, the admirable aspect of the Place and the Colonne Vendome. I don't now pretend to measure the extent to which my interest in the events of 1848—I was five ...

— A Small Boy and Others • Henry James

... adoration to the divinity, made gifts to the poor, placed a branch of the tulsi [489] in their casques, the saligram [490] round their neck; and having cased themselves in armour and put on the saffron robe, they bound the marriage crown around their heads and embraced each other for the last time. Thus they awaited the hour of battle. Three thousand eight hundred warriors, their faces red with wrath, prepared to die with their chiefs." In this account the preparation for the Johar ...

— The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV - Kumhar-Yemkala • R.V. Russell

... away, while plainer and plainer came the outlines of a lovely girl figure draped in soft clinging green. In her shower of bright hair a few green leaves and white blossoms clung, and they fell over her robe down to her feet. Her white throat and arms were bare, she leaned forward a little and swayed with the melody, her eyes fast on the clouds above her, her lips parted, a pink tinge of exercise in her cheeks as she ...

— A Girl Of The Limberlost • Gene Stratton Porter

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