overrobe

Noun

overrobe (plural overrobes)

1. A robe designed to be worn over other clothing, particularly another robe.
   • He wore a red overrobe, a gold underrobe, and somewhere, hidden beneath all the fabric, an antigrav belt which served to keep his body suspended one full unit off the deck.2003, William C. Dietz, Halo: The Flood, Del Rey; republished New York: Tor, 2010, →ISBN
   • The late-afternoon sun lit the expensive, brocaded silk of her overrobe and the almost equally expensive, fine-woven linen underrobe beneath it.2005, Hilari Bell, Fall of a Kingdom, Simon Pulse, published 2003, →ISBN, pages 8–9