"robe" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to a long, loose piece of clothing worn for lounging or sleeping. For example, "I put on my cozy robe after a long day."
On the phone from New York, during a brief break from shooting series three of the show – "Standing here in a robe, drinking a cold, disgusting coffee with a gauze wrapped around me because we're doing a parody of Human Centipede," she says by way of scene-setting – the comedian agrees that there's an element of release in acting out these grotesques.
If she cares about the rights of future generations of Americans, the argument goes, Justice Ginsburg will hang up her robe and let herself be replaced while Democrats control the White House and the Senate.On one hand, the progressive chorus calling for Justice Ginsburg to retire is, as Mr Kennedy wrote, "simply a plea for realism".
From then on the reader, too, is alert for him, doffing his robe to dance, dominating the tiltyard, until in 1509 he throws the windows open and sweeps his father's miserly dreariness away.In this section Vintage is the new vanguard Oh heavens, no Man of words Horrid Henrys Biographies in paint ReprintsThis imbalance is a shame.
One skulked about in a grubby robe and sandals; the other shone in blue micro-shorts and the sun-yellow shirt of Brazil.
Entering it without wearing your gho, a knee-length Bhutanese robe, meant risking arrest and a fine.Much is changing.
AS THOUSANDS of inhabitants of Mali's normally sleepy capital, Bamako, flooded south over the Bridge of Martyrs to the comparative safety of the River Niger's right bank on Wednesday afternoon, a man in a flowing robe and skull cap cut a stubborn figure as he walked the other way.
A simple gouache, painted in 1762 by one of Marie-Antoinette's sisters, depicts the emperor relaxing in his robe and slippers, while the empress fusses over her brood.Such informality would have been unthinkable at Versailles, where the archduchess was despatched in 1770, aged 14, to marry the portly dauphin, in an alliance between France and Austria.
He revealed, however, that he wore a robe "at first", because he was, after all, a congressman.And a good one.
Fond of walking the streets in a dark robe, carrying a cane, he called the group "Seas of David" and claimed to be a "soldier of Allah".
Men wear a gho, a long one-piece robe belted and hitched up at the waist, leaving a big pouch in the upper folds.
A velvet robe convinced Lambert Simnel's supporters in 15th-century Ireland that they were dealing with an earl, not a joiner's son; a feathered head-dress persuaded 20th-century Americans that this was Chief Grey Owl, not Archibald Belaney from London.
