Translation
dress
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 ĉambra or negliĝo depending on how formal your household is. at a is about as glamorous as Esperanto congress vocabulary gets.
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