unrobed

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The kind Fredrika did not recognise us in our Lapp dresses, until I had unrobed, when she cried out in joyful surprise, "Why, you were here before!"

From Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland by Taylor, Bayard

Yet it was not so, for with gentle hands, but in silence, they unrobed her, and washed her with scented waters and braided her hair, twisting it up with pearls and gems.

From The Brethren by Haggard, Henry Rider

The sons I saw Of Verli and of Vecchio, well content With unrobed jerkin, and their good dames handling The spindle and the flax....

From The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3), by Ruskin, John

Ye are the things that tower, that shine; whose smile makes glad—whose frown is terrible; whose forms, robed or unrobed, do all the impress wear of awe divine.

From Eclectic School Readings: Stories from Life by Marden, Orison Swett