as in cloaks
something that covers or conceals like a piece of cloth
with the coming of spring the hills will once again don their robes of green
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as in clothes
to outfit with clothes and especially fine or special clothes
robed the queen in her ceremonial garments
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Recent Examples of robes
Renan Botelho, Footwear News, 4 Sep. 2025
Food and Drink The resort offers in-room dining 24/7, so my husband and I enjoyed breakfast in our fluffy robes on the patio while adorable bunnies hopped around on the lawn nearby.
—Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 2 Sep. 2025
Parents with kids as young as six months who are cruising for the first time can feel comfortable on Explora Journeys ships, which offer family-friendly amenities including cribs, toys, and tiny robes.
—Lara Kramer, AFAR Media, 29 Aug. 2025
Consider the seventeenth-century icon that showed him with, in addition to luxurious robes, human hands, and flowing locks, an unmistakable snout.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 28 Aug. 2025
With a generous capacity, the warmer bucket fits two large bath sheets, three smaller towels, or items like throw blankets and robes.
—Maggie Horton, People.com, 24 Aug. 2025
Hotels long ago gave up trying to stop towels and robes walking out the door.
—Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Communist Party cadres waved Chinese flags, People’s Liberation Army soldiers marched with rifles, and Tibetans in colorful robes performed traditional dances at a ceremony marking 60 years since the founding of the Tibet Autonomous Region.
—Nectar Gan, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2025
And then, at a tea-and-meditation ceremony at the Shunkō-in Temple, the Reverend Takafumi Zenryu Kawakami, in his splendid purple robes, gave voice to the things that my body had been telling me in its wise, oblique way.
—Lauren Groff, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
The line includes bras, underwear, slips, robes and layering pieces meant to transition from private wear to day-to-day wardrobes.
—Renan Botelho, Footwear News, 4 Sep. 2025
Food and Drink The resort offers in-room dining 24/7, so my husband and I enjoyed breakfast in our fluffy robes on the patio while adorable bunnies hopped around on the lawn nearby.
—Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 2 Sep. 2025
Parents with kids as young as six months who are cruising for the first time can feel comfortable on Explora Journeys ships, which offer family-friendly amenities including cribs, toys, and tiny robes.
—Lara Kramer, AFAR Media, 29 Aug. 2025
Consider the seventeenth-century icon that showed him with, in addition to luxurious robes, human hands, and flowing locks, an unmistakable snout.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 28 Aug. 2025
With a generous capacity, the warmer bucket fits two large bath sheets, three smaller towels, or items like throw blankets and robes.
—Maggie Horton, People.com, 24 Aug. 2025
Hotels long ago gave up trying to stop towels and robes walking out the door.
—Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Communist Party cadres waved Chinese flags, People’s Liberation Army soldiers marched with rifles, and Tibetans in colorful robes performed traditional dances at a ceremony marking 60 years since the founding of the Tibet Autonomous Region.
—Nectar Gan, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2025
And then, at a tea-and-meditation ceremony at the Shunkō-in Temple, the Reverend Takafumi Zenryu Kawakami, in his splendid purple robes, gave voice to the things that my body had been telling me in its wise, oblique way.
—Lauren Groff, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for robes
Noun
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While invisibility cloaks are a gee-whiz application, metamaterials now offer real-world commercial applications such as new antenna technologies for mobile phones.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
7 Dec. 2018
Noun
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One through line between the films and the series are the headdresses, veils and hair jewelry.—
Rachel Elspeth Gross,
Forbes.com,
16 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Rooker unsurprisingly embraces the lunacy of his character, who dresses in Native American drag and tastes bird poop to track his prey.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
15 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Smoke from western wildfires shrouds downtown buildings with the Cheyenne Mountain in the background on August 12 in Colorado Springs.—
Hollie Silverman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 Aug. 2025
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The plastic bodywork has been sharpened all around, too, with the tank shrouds now reaching the front forks.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
15 Aug. 2025
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The tranquil space, complete with soft music and weighted blankets, offered comfort during dental procedures.—
Tammy Ljungblad,
Kansas City Star,
10 Sep. 2025
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One user shared a photo of silver blankets being distributed, while others reported a lack of communication about the type of incident or how long the disruption might last.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Sep. 2025
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In Batman's Gotham City land some of the windows in the building facades are cracked whilst others are boarded up or have curtains which are only partly pulled to.—
Caroline Reid,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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At home, consider swapping heavy drapes for a pair of airy lace curtains, adding milk-glass lamps, and trading scalloped edges for straight ones.—
Ginger Perra,
Better Homes & Gardens,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Robes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/robes. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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