unrobed

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Without summoning Alvarez, the Cardinal unrobed, and in a few moments was asleep.

From Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, 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

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

Then she unrobed the Lion of his furry spoil, and conveyed it to the village, where she astonished her folk with all that had happened to her.

From My Dark Companions And Their Strange Stories by Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton)