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  1. robes

    A robe is a loose-fitting outer garment. Unlike garments described as capes or cloaks, robes usually have sleeves. The English word robe derives from Middle English robe ("garment"), borrowed from Old French robe ("booty, spoils"), itself taken from the Frankish word *rouba ("spoils, things stolen, clothes"), and is related to the word rob.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. ROBES

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Robes is ranked #105600 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Robes surname appeared 169 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Robes.

    42.6% or 72 total occurrences were White.
    28.9% or 49 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    26% or 44 total occurrences were Asian.

Anagrams for robes »

  1. Boers

  2. bores

  3. Brose

  4. brose

  5. sober

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of robes in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of robes in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of robes in a Sentence

  1. Herman Melville, Moby Dick:

    Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meagre faces; but man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.

  2. Barbara Tuchman:

    Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

  3. Terry Goodkind:

    Cara: I just found a delightful account of a case against a wizard who once fancied getting drunk, marching down to the market on Stentor Street, hiking up his robes to random women and commanding them to kiss the serpent.

  4. Stephen Breyer:

    If the public sees judges as politicians in robes, its confidence in the courts and in the rule of law can only diminish, diminishing the court's power, including its power to act as a check on other branches, that authority, like the rule of law, depends on trust... that the court is guided by legal principle, not politics.

  5. Trevor McFadden:

    Judicial robes aren’t bulletproof, your threat was despicable and it was calculated to instill a maximum amount of fear.

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