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robed, ppl. a.|rəʊbd| [f. robe v. or n.1] 1. Clad in robes; wearing robes. Also with in.
c1325Metr. Hom. 41 A man robed in wlank wede. 1362Langl. P. Pl. A. ix. 1 Thus i-robed in russet, romed I a-boute. a1400Isumbras 269 So semly als thay bothe ware, If thay were robed riche. 1608Shakes. Lear iii. vi. 38 (Q.1), Thou robbed man of Iustice take thy place. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 194 Roabed and laden with..Gemmes. 1757Gray Bard 17 Rob'd in the sable garb of Woe. 1784Cowper Task ii. 823 The cause..has been found..in the skirts Of the rob'd pedagogue! 1834Lytton Pompeii i. iv, In the centre of the steps appeared a priest robed in white from head to foot. 1885Law Times LXXIX. 385/1 Judge Powell..intimated that he should sit robed. fig.1632Milton L'Allegro 61 Wher the great Sun begins his state, Rob'd in flames, and Amber light. 1712Addison Spect. No. 265 ⁋9 Ovid..tells us..that Aurora..is robed in Saffron. 1881Tennyson To Virgil i, Roman Virgil, thou that singest Ilion's lofty temples robed in fire. a1901F. W. H. Myers Hum. Personality (1903) II. 299 Minds still robed in flesh. 2. Wearing robes of a specified kind, as long-robed, loose-robed, etc. Also fig.
1777E. Ryves Poems 60 Where loose-rob'd Pleasure careless roves. 1838Eliza Cook Spring i, Beauty shines forth in the blossom-robed trees. 1849M. Arnold Strayed Reveller 269 Passing through the dark stems Flowing-robed. 1857Dufferin Lett. High Lat. (ed. 3) 92 Silence and deep peace brooded over the fair grass-robed plain. |