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  • He wore a magnificent overrobe of iridescent green silk, embroidered with orange feathers and gold starbursts along the hem and sleeves and neckline.

    Spirit Gate 2006

  • The tight vest she wore beneath her loose, silk overrobe rose and fell with the force of her breathing.

    Full-Blooded Fantasy Steve Erickson 2005

  • She was dressed for riding, a modest split skirt beneath her overrobe—unlike Soraya.

    Full-Blooded Fantasy Steve Erickson 2005

  • She was dressed for riding, a modest split skirt beneath her overrobe—unlike Soraya.

    Full-Blooded Fantasy Steve Erickson 2005

  • The late-afternoon sun lit the expensive, brocaded silk of her overrobe and the almost equally expensive, fine-woven linen underrobe beneath it.

    Full-Blooded Fantasy Steve Erickson 2005

  • The late-afternoon sun lit the expensive, brocaded silk of her overrobe and the almost equally expensive, fine-woven linen underrobe beneath it.

    Full-Blooded Fantasy Steve Erickson 2005

  • The tight vest she wore beneath her loose, silk overrobe rose and fell with the force of her breathing.

    Full-Blooded Fantasy Steve Erickson 2005

  • She pinned her overrobe tight, grateful that it was split up the back for riding.

    Full-Blooded Fantasy Steve Erickson 2005

  • She pinned her overrobe tight, grateful that it was split up the back for riding.

    Full-Blooded Fantasy Steve Erickson 2005

  • He wore a red overrobe, a gold underrobe, and somewhere, hidden beneath all the fabric, an antigrav belt which served to keep his body suspended one full unit off the deck.

    The Flood Dietz, William 2003

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