Sentence examples for official robes from inspiring English sources

Chinsō were official pictures of high ecclesiastics, usually posed seated in a chair and dressed in their official robes.

Cao is sometimes depicted in official robes and hat and carrying a tablet indicative of his rank and of his right to palace audiences.

"Mandarin squares" had been attached front and back to Ming official robes as symbols of civil and military rank and were adapted by the Manchus to their own distinctive dress.

On 30 July 1982, his last day in court, Denning prepared four judgments and, dressed in his official robes and in the company of the Lord Chief Justice, delivered his farewell speech to over 300 lawyers crowded into the court.

On 24 May Abbott formally took up his position, attending the House of Lords regularly, and was the last Chief Justice to wear his official robes to the Lords (other than those acting as interim Speakers).

The first photo is a portrait of a round-faced Chinese man in the official robe and headwear of the Qing Dynasty.

Kinney said she's the spirit captain, Shaw is the team brain and Barrios is the official robe transporter.

The black and white POW/MIA (missing in action) flag has flown over the White House, U.S. post offices and government buildings, the New York Stock Exchange, and appears on the right sleeve of the official robe of the Ku Klux Klan, according to Franklin.

With Los Alamos National Laboratory's recent troubles over lost computer disks, errant e-mail and other security breaches, an even wilder fantasy comes to mind: laboratory officials, robed and hooded in black, sitting around a cauldron chanting the mathematical incantations that invoke the rawest forces of nature.

The original English name for this bird, dating back to at least 1465, is the ree, perhaps derived from a dialectical term meaning "frenzied"; a later name reeve, which is still used for the female, is of unknown origin, but may be derived from the shire-reeve, a feudal officer, likening the male's flamboyant plumage to the official's robes.

Then William sent out far and wide to scour the snowy countryside for poets, astrologers, fools, magicians; gave them all Official Positions, gorgeous robes, coin-plump purses; commissioned rude and filthy verses; made No-marks famous; had the Baron's horoscope cast beneath Uranus.