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  • adjective Without a robe (item of clothing); unrobed.

Etymologies

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robe +‎ -less

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Examples

  • And after failing to convince the university's administration to rescind Dimon's invitation, some students have devised a new plan to exhibit their distaste: they will be going robeless at Sunday's graduation ceremonies.

    Syracuse Students Plan To Disrobe During Jamie Dimon's Graduation Speech 2010

  • And after failing to convince the university's administration to rescind Dimon's invitation, some students have devised a new plan to exhibit their distaste: they will be going robeless at Sunday's graduation ceremonies.

    Syracuse Students Plan To Disrobe During Jamie Dimon's Graduation Speech 2010

  • Drawing nearer, I discerned the apparition to be a robeless, laureless lout, who belonged at the village inn.

    Italian Journeys William Dean Howells 1878

  • Going, in his full robes, to say prayers in church, with one of his deacons, he came across some unhappily robeless person by the wayside; for whom he forthwith orders his deacon to provide some manner of coat, or gown.

    Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens John Ruskin 1859

  • And after failing to convince the university's administration to rescind Dimon's invitation, some students have devised a new plan to exhibit their distaste: they will be going robeless at

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2010

  • Ep 2 Obi-Wan, Ep 2 and Ep 3 Anakin, even the new Plo Koon, they are pretty major players and yet ... robeless.

    Rebelscum.com 2009

  • Thus the neo-Quakerism which supplies the ethical core of progressivism, and is evangelized with increasingly relentless zeal by the Cathedral’s robeless monks, is completely compatible with the acquisition and maintenance of political power.

    Washington has made itself necessary « Isegoria 2008

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