Enrobed
adj, verb
adj, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 simple past and past participle of enrobe form-of, participle, past
Adjective
- 1 Wearing a robe or robes.
"Enrobed monks were playing pool out in the street and men squatted along the shop fronts, picking their teeth and gazing vacantly at the gloomy bottle- filled stores across the road."
- 2 Having been sprayed with liquid chocolate until covered.
"Chocolate cookies and enrobed candy bars have a lot of things in them besides chocolate ."
- 3 Made less astringent by combination with other flavors so as to produce a smoother, more rounded mouthfeel.
"In 2007, said Mortet, the tannins are more enrobed; grape sugars were lower (he told me he chaptalized his wines between a half and a full degree) but the skins were dark and ripe and could support more extraction."
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More examples"Enrobed monks were playing pool out in the street and men squatted along the shop fronts, picking their teeth and gazing vacantly at the gloomy bottle- filled stores across the road."