unrobed

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Scandalized moralists cried: "Who were these unwigged, unrobed, tradition-mocking judges?"

From Time Magazine Archive

With her was the priestess Papave, who had just unrobed her of the royal mantle which she wore in the Sanctuary.

From Ayesha, the Return of She by Haggard, Henry Rider

The sons I saw Of Verli and of Vecchio, well content With unrobed jerkin, and their good dames handling The spindle and the flax....

From The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3), by Ruskin, John

He gave his assent in form to several laws, unrobed, took his seat on a chair of state which had been placed for him, and listened with much interest to the debate.

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

The sons I saw Of Nerli, and of Vecchio, well content With unrobed jerkin; and their good dames handling The spindle and the flax: O happy they!

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 by Various