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Definition of Enrobing
1. enrobe [v] - See also: enrobe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Enrobing
Literary usage of Enrobing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report by California State Board of Forestry (1888)
"This enrobing forest, the noblest in North America, is perforated along its raised
center line, or axis of the Sierra, by a thousand peaks rising through ..."
2. The Sacred Books of China by James Legge (1885)
"He lives in the enjoyment of all flavours, the discriminating of all notes (of
harmony), and the enrobing of all ..."
3. Shakespeare from Betterton to Irving by George Clinton Densmore Odell (1920)
"... "without considering the impropriety of enrobing a Roman matron in the
habiliments of the Egyptian queen" (made the year before for an English princess, ..."
4. The Yale Literary Magazine by Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg, Yale University (1844)
"Twilight's soft shade comes down from all the sky, enrobing land and sea in sober
gray— The gaudy glare of day dies silently, And leaves Heaven's deathless ..."
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