What colour is the robe? LIN.

Parliamentary robes, and golden chains; a house in Dublin for each chief during the sitting of Parliamentthese were only a portion of the good things offered by the deputy on the part of his master.

The wedding-robe of Anne of Cleves was a rich cloth-of-gold, thickly embroidered with great flowers of large Orient pearls.

My priestly robe, far from being a safeguard, is but a cloke for my iniquities.

They's angels all over the house-an' their robes is breshin' the roof whilst they sing His head had fallen.

Enthroned In the midst on an emerald bright, Fair Geraldine sat without peer; Her robe was a gleam of the first blush of light, And her mantle the fleece of a noon-cloud white, And a beam of the moon was her spear.

The robes also were red velvet, bordered and lined with black bear fur.

This robe was crimson, and manufactured out of the very finest wool.

Unable to act of himself, the purple robes of the Cardinal were his safeguard and his refuge; nor was Richelieu unwilling to accept the responsibility thus thrust upon him.

They's angels all over the house-an' their robes is breshin' the roof whilst they sing His head had fallen.

My buffalo robes were the things that kept us warm, those howling nights, or when it was so still that we could hear the ice crack in the creek eighty rods off.

The beech stood mute, but a purple hue O'er its glossy robe was a witness true.