robe

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A long loose flowing outer garment, especially:
2. n. An official garment worn on formal occasions to show office or rank, as by a judge or high church official.
3. n. An academic gown.
4. n. A dressing gown or bathrobe.
5. n. Clothes; apparel.
6. n. A blanket or covering made of material, such as fur or cloth: a lap robe.
7. v. To cover or dress in or as if in a robe. See Synonyms at clothe.
8. v. To put on robes or a robe.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A gown or long loose garment worn over other dress; a gown or dress of a rich, flowing, or elegant style or make.
2. n. An official vestment; a flowing garment symbolizing honor, dignity, or authority.
3. n. Any garment; apparel in general; dress; costume.
4. n. Hence, that which covers or invests; something resembling or suggesting a robe.
5. n. A woman's gown of any cut or fabric, with trimmings, usually in the form of bands or borders, woven in or embroidered on the material.
6. n. A dressed skin or pelt: first applied to that of the American bison, but now to that of any animal when used for a carriage- or sleigh-rug, and by extension to any protecting wrap used in driving: as, a linen lap-robe.
7. n. The largest and strongest tobacco-leaves, which are used as covers for the thicker kinds of pigtail.
8. n. Eccles., specifically, the early chasuble, a large garment covering the body. Compare garment, 2.
9. n. plural Garments of state or ceremony, forming together an entire costume. Thus, coronation robes may include all the garments worn by a prince at the time of his coronation, and always include the outer or decorative pieces, as the dalmatic, the mantle, etc.
10. To put a robe on; clothe in a robe; especially, to clothe magnificently or ceremoniously: as, to robe a sovereign for a coronation.
11. To clothe or dress in general.
12. To put on a robe or robes; assume official vestments: as, the judges are robing; the clergy robed in the vestry.
13. n. An abbreviation of arroba.

Wiktionary

1. n. A long loose outer garment, often signifying honorary stature.
2. v. To clothe someone in a robe.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. An outer garment; a dress of a rich, flowing, and elegant style or make; hence, a dress of state, rank, office, or the like.
2. n. U.S. A skin of an animal, especially, a skin of the bison, dressed with the fur on, and used as a wrap.
3. v. To invest with a robe or robes; to dress; to array.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. outerwear consisting of a long flowing garment used for official or ceremonial occasions
2. v. clothe formally; especially in ecclesiastical robes
3. v. cover as if with clothing
4. n. any loose flowing garment