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A robe is a loose-fitting outer garment. [1] [2] Unlike garments described as capes or cloaks, robes usually have sleeves. The English word robe derives from Middle English robe ("garment"), borrowed from Old French robe ("booty, spoils"), itself taken from the Frankish word *rouba ("spoils, things stolen, clothes"), and is related to the word ...
Charles-Alexandre de Calonne by Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun (1784), London, Royal Collection.Calonne is shown in the costume of his rank, noblesse de robe. Under the Ancien Régime of France, the Nobles of the Robe or Nobles of the Gown (French: noblesse de robe) were French aristocrats whose rank came from holding certain judicial or administrative posts.
In the 1952 Flannery O'Connor novel Wise Blood, Hazel Motes leaves a note on his mother's abandoned "chifforobe" warning thieves will be found and killed. [7]In the song "Whistlin' Past The Graveyard", Tom Waits writes, "I come in on a night train, With an arm full of box cars, On the wings of a magpie, Cross a hooligan night, And I busted up a chifforobe, way out by the cocomo, Cooked up a ...
A dressing gown from the 1850s A modern dressing gown. A dressing gown, housecoat or morning gown is a robe, a loose-fitting outer garment, worn by either men or women.They are similar to a bathrobe but without the absorbent material.
A bathrobe, also known as a housecoat or a dressing gown, is a loose-fitting outer garment (a robe) worn by people, often after washing the body or around a pool. A bathrobe is considered to be very informal clothing, and is not worn with everyday clothes.
Garderobe is the French word for "wardrobe", a lockable place where clothes and other items are stored.According to medieval architecture scholar Frank Bottomley, garderobes were "Properly, not a latrine or privy but a small room or large cupboard, usually adjoining the chamber [bedroom] or solar [living room] and providing safe-keeping for valuable clothes and other possessions of price ...
The robe of the High Priest of Israel as created by the Temple Institute. The priestly robe (Hebrew: מְעִיל, romanized: məʿil), sometimes robe of the ephod (מְעִיל הָאֵפֹוד məʿil hāʾēp̄oḏ), is one of the sacred articles of clothing of the High Priest of Israel. The robe is described in Exodus 28:31-35.
In these Churches, generally only a white robe will be used for the Eucharistic service. On more solemn occasions, an epitrachelion-like vestment is worn, and sometimes a vestment resembling a cope is worn. Priests and bishops always carry a Hand Cross during services.