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English Dictionary: robed by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
robed
adj
  1. dressed or clothed especially in fine attire; often used in combination; "the elegantly attired gentleman"; "neatly dressed workers"; "monks garbed in hooded robes"; "went about oddly garmented"; "professors robed in crimson"; "tuxedo-attired gentlemen"; "crimson-robed Harvard professors"
    Synonym(s): appareled, attired, dressed, garbed, garmented, habilimented, robed
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Robe \Robe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Robed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Robing}.]
      To invest with a robe or robes; to dress; to array; as,
      fields robed with green.
  
               The sage Chaldeans robed in white appeared. --Pope.
  
               Such was his power over the expression of his
               countenance, that he could in an instant shake off the
               sternness of winter, and robe it in the brightest
               smiles of spring.                                    --Wirt.
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