underrobe

Noun

underrobe (plural underrobes)

1. A robe designed to be worn under other clothing, particularly another robe.
   • But the next item, the underrobe, isn't really an undergarment at all. When a geisha performs a dance, or sometimes even when she walks along the street, she might raise the hem of her kimono in her left hand to keep it out of the way. This has the effect of exposing the underrobe below the knees...1997, Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha, Random House, →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