don a robe
Frequency: 4.22.1 per million words
A more formal way to say 'put on a robe'.
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Examples (10)
- The king prepared to don his ceremonial robe for the coronation.
- After his bath, the emperor would don a silk robe.
- The priest began to don his liturgical robes before the service.
- She watched the judge don a black robe and enter the courtroom.
- Graduates were asked to don their academic robes before the ceremony.
- It was time for the wizard to don his star-patterned robe.
- The monk would don a simple saffron robe every morning.
- Before appearing on stage, the actor had to don a heavy velvet robe.
- The choir members donned their white robes in the vestry.
- He helped the elderly scholar don a warm, fur-lined robe.