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white-robed

[ hwahyt-rohbd, wahyt- ]

adjective

  1. clothed in a white robe.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of white-robed1

First recorded in 1615–25

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Example Sentences

The city had already begun to revert back to its historic and real masters: sheiks and imams, the white-robed religious clerics.

Dead leaves covered all the long avenue in which the little white-robed child was being carried up and down.

And Richard saw before his eyes a white-robed, catlike Arab, swinging upon a picketed chestnut charger.

She made a white-robed, dusky figure against the deep blues of my big window.

The boys soon found themselves seated in easy-chairs in the verandah, while white-robed servants brought them refreshments.

Amid the wreathing vapours a figure of unearthly proportions carried to the sea a white-robed form with long flowing hair.

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