white robes
Clergy's formal dress
White robes are long, flowing garments associated with purity, holiness, or ceremonial significance.
They appear in religious contexts—angels, the saved in Christian scripture, baptismal candidates—and in ritualistic settings from ancient priests to modern choirs.
The phrase can carry ominous undertones when associated with groups like the Ku Klux Klan: Men in white robes gathered at the edge of town.
- clergyOrdained religious officials collectively
- baptismRitual water purification ceremony
- baptismal gownInfant's religious ceremony dress
- angelsDivine winged messengers
- heavenly hostAll angels collectively
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- Heavenparadise, pearly gates, eternal life, kingdom of heaven, New Jerusalem
- baptismchristening, infant baptism, adult baptism, water baptism, immersion
- Biblical Attiretunic, tunics, cloak, cloaks, mantle
- heavenly rewardseternal life, everlasting life, crown of life, crown of glory, heavenly inheritance
- heavenly visionsangelic choir, archangels, ascension, celestial beings, cherubim
- pilgrimage ritescircumambulation, prostration, ritual bathing, ritual washing, kora
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Dark formal garments worn officially
sackcloth · funeral shroud · death shroud · sackcloth and ashes · widow's weeds
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Ordinary daily attire
work clothes · casual wear · rags · plainclothes · plain clothes
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