enrobed

Adjective

enrobed (comparative more enrobed, superlative most enrobed)

1. Wearing a robe or robes.
   • Enrobed monks were playing pool out in the street and men squatted along the shop fronts, picking their teeth and gazing vacantly at the gloomy bottle- filled stores across the road.2006, Brian Johnston, Boxing with Shadows: Travels in China, page 116
   • The enrobed figures held each others' arms high as they took a step toward the fire, their voices rising as if riding the crackling flames up to the sky, then released each other and stepped back.2008, Erica Ferencik, Cracks in the Foundation, page 97
2. Having been sprayed with liquid chocolate until covered.
   • Chocolate cookies and enrobed candy bars have a lot of things in them besides chocolate .1975, Science Digest - Volume 78, page 72
   • With enrobed products, an after-freezer to rapidly set the chocolate or coating is normally used.2011, Steve T. Beckett, Industrial Chocolate Manufacture and Use, pages 19-22
3. Made less astringent by combination with other flavors so as to produce a smoother, more rounded mouthfeel.
   • In 2007, said Mortet, the tannins are more enrobed; grape sugars were lower (he told me he chaptalized his wines between a half and a full degree) but the skins were dark and ripe and could support more extraction.1997, Stephen Tanzer, Stephen Tanzer's international wine cellar, page 40
   • The wine seemed too tannic at the beginning, but now the tannins are more enrobed.2001, International Wine Cellar - Issues 94-105, page 5