What is "enrobe"

Usage examples of "enrobe".

Lady Abbess took the noviciate veil from the fair devotee, and prepared to enrobe her in black.

We had told our little darling, Of the land of love and light, Of the saints all crowned with glory, And enrobed in spotless white.

I retrieved a huge bowl of prawns ready to be enrobed in the velvety curry sauce, and set them aside.

He groaned a little as the Voices enrobed him in a clean garment and put fresh pillows beneath his head and the newly bandaged arm.

An effect of these horrors is that Volumnia finds she cannot go to bed in her own room or sit by the fire in her own room, but must come forth with her fair head tied up in a profusion of shawl, and her fair form enrobed in drapery, and parade the mansion like a ghost, particularly haunting the rooms, warm and luxurious, prepared for one who still does not return.

Charliss sat enrobed in his heavy velvets of State, amid the grim splendor of the panoply surrounding his Iron Throne.

Enfeebled grey light lay gasping against the windows, a reflection of the fogbound twilight that had enrobed the ridge on which the abbey sat.

Every object that presented itself was enrobed in that sublime simplicity which characterizes these charming regions, whose imagery is at once lofty and impressive, lilling the mind that contemplates it with the most exquisite emotions.

But, spite of her shrieks, the ignipotent knight, Enrobing the maid in a flame of gas light, To the skies in a sky-rocket bore her.

The rabbi left Miriam to make her way through the front door where stragglers were still coming in, and hurried to a side door that led to the vestry and the narrow staircase to the enrobing room adjoining the altar.

When he trudged through the next portal and found another sector head standing there in full ceremonial robes, with all his underlings, also enrobed, ready to greet the Servant, Reigner Two contrived to look as dismal as any ruler of more than half the galaxy could.

He groaned a little as the Voices enrobed him in a clean garment and put fresh pillows beneath his head and the newly bandaged arm.

The crown of her estate was the wizard's tower, a tall, six-sided structure of green-veined marble, enrobed with flowering vines and topped by an onion dome roof of verdigris copper.

Ahead, in the hazy distance, lay the Sierra Madre, at this time of day enrobed in regal purple.

Cadoc took an embroidered mantle off its hanger and fitted it over the fine linen sakkos and be-jeweled dalmatic that enrobed him.