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- noun Plural form of
toga .
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Examples
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I love all his work - I grew up with Clarke (my mother was a huge sci-fi fan and took me to see '2001' when I was six) but agree with the comment made after his death by his friend Michael Moorcock that Clarke's future consisted of 'brainy men in togas discussing theorems'.
INTERVIEW: Michael Hanlon, Author of Eternity, Our Next Billion Years 2009
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The metal men, the women in Greek togas, and the man with the metal eye, Brontes, were clearly her servants and hers alone.
Orphans of Chaos 2005
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I think some people in togas are plotting against me.
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We worked very hard, and it was very difficult to manage legs without breaking; so we made most of them Romans in togas, and they looked very well from a distance, and lasted a long time, because the frost lasted.
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* These silk gowns, called togas, were stolen by some of Kilpatrick's cavalry when Chapel Hill was captured in the spring of 1865, and have not been replaced.
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One, larger than the others, was of her and another woman who looked like a young Monserrat Caballe, both dressed in the kind of togas which costume designers like to whip up for "Norma."
The Mozart Code Adler, Dick 1999
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Under its influence the garments of the five would dry fast, and as Henry looked at them and then down at his comrades, wrapped in their "togas" he felt an inclination to laugh.
The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand 1890
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These went very fashionably with the "togas" that were worn at that time.
EzineArticles 2010
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I'm sure the pubs will be packed with people sporting their "togas", as a certain Furness College Sports Hub Administrator thought was the national dress of Algeria, when the draw was made ...
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I'm sure the pubs will be packed with people sporting their "togas", as a certain Furness College Sports Hub Administrator thought was the national dress of Algeria, when the draw was made ...
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