Meanings
plural overrobes
- A robe designed to be worn over other clothing, particularly another robe.
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 8–92 more examples
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, →ISBNHe 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
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