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overrobe en · NOUN

Etymology

From over + robe.

Meanings

1. A robe designed to be worn over other clothing, particularly another robe.
   • He wore a magnificent overrobe of iridescent green silk, embroidered with orange feathers and gold starbursts along the hem and sleeves and neckline. 2006, Kate Elliott, Spirit Gate, Tor, published 2007, →ISBN, page 510:
   • The late-afternoon sun lit the expensive, brocaded silk of her overrobe and the almost equally expensive, fine-woven linen underrobe beneath it. 2005, Hilari Bell, Fall of a Kingdom, Simon Pulse, published 2003, →ISBN, pages 8–9:
   • He wore a red overrobe, a gold underrobe, and somewhere, hidden beneath all the fabric, an antigrav belt which served to keep his body suspended one full unit off the deck. 2003, William C. Dietz, Halo: The Flood, Del Rey; republished New York: Tor, 2010, →ISBN:

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