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Definition of Robed
1. Adjective. Dressed or clothed especially in fine attire; often used in combination. "Crimson-robed Harvard professors"
Similar to: Clad, Clothed
Definition of Robed
1. Verb. (past of robe) ¹
2. Adjective. Wearing a robe. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Robed
1. robe [v] - See also: robe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Robed
Literary usage of Robed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"Behold how Cypris with a fond caress Beguiling for her minion race of Troy Some
long-robed Argive to desert her home 510 Hath scratch'd against the broach ..."
2. Cicero: A Sketch of His Life and Works by Hannis Taylor, Mary Lillie Taylor Hunt (1916)
"Advocate, robed in his toga, attended by a jurisconsult and ... Into the Forum
the advocate, in English parlance th< barrister, went robed in his toga, ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1858)
"... it thus robed with the richest graces before thy mind's eye. Well, seest thon
now the excuse for poets in the rank they give to BEAUTY ? ..."
4. John L. Stoddard's Lectures by John Lawson Stoddard (1898)
"... its name from the fact that its form resembles that of a dead woman robed in
white for burial. From some points of view the likeness is startling. ..."
5. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"... aghast, Sheeted Memories of the Past — Shrouded forms that start and sigh As
they pass the wanderer by — White-robed forms of friends long given, ..."
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