Contextualizebeta

underrobe

noun

Etymology

From under + robe.

  1. derived from *Hrewp-✻ — “to tear, peel”
  2. derived from *raubō✻
  3. derived from *rouba✻
  4. derived from robe
  5. inherited from robe
  6. compounded as underrobe — “under + robe”

Definitions

  1. A robe designed to be worn under other clothing, particularly another robe.

    • The late-afternoon sun lit the expensive, brocaded silk of her overrobe and the almost equally expensive, fine-woven linen underrobe beneath it.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for underrobe. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA