white-robed

[ hwahyt-rohbd, wahyt- ]

adjective
  1. clothed in a white robe.

Origin of white-robed

1
First recorded in 1615–25

Words Nearby white-robed

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How to use white-robed in a sentence

  • 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.

    Marguerite | Anatole France
  • And Richard saw before his eyes a white-robed, catlike Arab, swinging upon a picketed chestnut charger.

    God Wills It! | William Stearns Davis
  • She made a white-robed, dusky figure against the deep blues of my big window.

    The New Machiavelli | Herbert George Wells
  • 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.

    Baron Bruno | Louisa Morgan