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Translation

dress

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Word origin

From French robe, a garment word of Germanic origin originally meaning booty or spoils, clothing being a prime thing to carry off. English robe and wardrobe kept the same word.

Origin
French
Root
robe
English cognates
robe, wardrobe

Examples

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She bought a new dress for the party.

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I really like the yellow dress.

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Her dress is long and white.

is the one-piece garment, a dress or a gown; the general word for clothing is , and you wear either with or surhavi. A judge's or academic's robe is also , so context does the sorting, as it does in French. The dressing gown becomes or negliĝo depending on how formal your household is. at a is about as glamorous as Esperanto congress vocabulary gets.

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This word is taught in chapter 12, lesson 12: robo, maŝino, murdi and 7 more words.