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enrobe

American  
[en-rohb] / ɛnˈroʊb /

verb (used with object)

enrobed, enrobing
  1. to dress; attire.

    The king was enrobed in velvet.


enrobe British  
/ ɪnˈrəʊb /

verb

  1. (tr) to dress in or as if in a robe; attire

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of enrobe

First recorded in 1585–95; en- 1 + robe

Example Sentences

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Toss it with fresh lobster chunks, enrobe cutlets with hollandaise and bread crumbs before frying, or make the most luscious broiled oysters you've ever had.

From Salon • Jun. 5, 2025

Inside, we were all given a tray of round chocolate shells, which we learned to fill with ganache, seal with meticulously tempered milk or dark chocolate, and gently enrobe in powdered sugar.

From Salon • Aug. 13, 2023

For years the Warner Bros. film studio was run by Alan Horn, known as a deft glad-hander of agents, actors, directors and the sensitive skin that can enrobe them.

From Washington Post • Dec. 9, 2020

Hornby said he had just that desire: to create a story divorced from its era and enrobe it in more timeless emotion.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 4, 2015

No more she smiles for me, no more my rays      Urge on her frozen roots to coloured bloom, No clouds enrobe her nakedness--her days,      Once golden in the dance, are bent on doom.

From The Masque of the Elements by Scheffauer, Herman George

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