The phrase "a robe of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a robe made from a specific material or having a particular quality.
Example: "She wore a robe of silk that flowed elegantly as she walked."
Alternatives: "a silk robe" or "a robe made of".
He wore a robe of silver lamé, and his fingernails were trimmed and polished.
Nearby, a rushing cataract, beautiful as a robe of shimmering jewels, cascaded into the green valley of the ruins".
The seven are often shown on their treasure ship (takara-bune) together with various magical implements, such as a hat of invisibility, rolls of brocade, an inexhaustible purse, keys to the divine treasure-house, cloves, scrolls or books, a lucky rain hat, or a robe of feathers.
Certain famous characters, such as Shakespeare's Sir John Falstaff, became identified with a particular type of dress; a sketch that Jones made of Sir William Davenant in The Temple of Love, produced in 1635, was inscribed: "a robe of russet girt low with a great belly…the sleeves short…buskins to show a great swollen leg…a great head and bald.
Harpies, the half-bird, half-woman creatures of Greek mythology, terrorise Pullman's underworld, and the boatman is described as "aged beyond age, huddled in a robe of sacking bound with string, crippled and bent," closely resembling Seneca's description of the mythical Charon as "a filthy old man who conveys the terrified ghosts" across to Hades.
Illustrations follow: A tall figure advanced silently into the shaft of moonlight from the high narrow window — a figure in a robe of saffron silk which slid to the floor without a sound, revealing a splendid golden body swaying slowly towards me, slim hands clasped over her breasts and then falling away to caress her hips as she passed from the moonbeam into the shadow.
There was no second to put a robe on or any sort of clothing or anything.
"There was no second to put a robe on or any sort of clothing," Dixon said.
He orders a crown and sceptre of rubies and pearls, and a fine robe of tissued gold – the arrival of which begins to obsess him.
The meʿil was a sleeveless robe of purple the lower hem of which had a fringe of small gold bells alternating with pomegranate tassels in red, scarlet, purple, and violet.
In the same way that the laws of the physical universe are interdependent and form a seamless robe of delicate physical order, so are the principles of the spiritual creation, which form a seamless robe of delicate theological order.
