Sentence examples for outer robe from inspiring English sources

In cooler climates, both shoulders may be covered with an inner robe, and the outer robe is hung from the left shoulder, as in China.

Like the cope, the surplice (a white outer robe) entered liturgical usage in the Middle Ages as a late modification of the alb.

A while ago, he said, he was driving around with an Orthodox bishop when they spotted another priest standing at a newsstand without his hat and outer robe.

He sometimes replaces his outer robe with a black trench coat and also has a hat with a cross of glittering rhinestones above the brim.

It consists of baggy white damask trousers (ue-no-hakama) and a voluminous yellow outer robe (hō) cut in the Chinese style but tucked in at the waist and patterned with the Chinese phoenix (hōō).

The voluminous outer robe (ho) is cut in the style of the Chinese pao but is given a distinctively Japanese look by being tucked up at the waist so that the skirt ends midway between the knees and the floor.

The outer robes on one were pink and later orange on the outside, with a pale blue lining, whereas the other was white.

It probably developed from a long, robe-like outer garment worn by matrons in ancient Rome.

Even the inevitable terry-cloth robes have something extra -- a smooth cotton outer shell that feels like silk.

A guard showed a reporter a piece of scalp with long brown hair, which he said came from the first bomber, whom he described as a woman in black robes who had detonated her explosives at the outer gate.

Barefoot in pajamas and a robe, lounging in a kitsch-filled sanctum-in-outer-space designed by Alexander V. Nichols, Ms. Fisher makes you feel you've arrived for a slumber party to swap confidences.