Word: garbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...centuries passed, these mystical Moslems became known as sufis (from their garb of suf, or undyed wool). They were loosely organized around leaders, or saints, who sought from the Koran not learning, but direct "experience...
...throne was an ordinary armchair in claret-colored upholstery, his garb a spotless white shirt and beige ankle-length robe, elastic-sided boots, and a white turban wound around his head, one end hanging rakishly loose in Hejaz style. Once Abdullah installed a set of distorting mirrors in the entrance to his audience chamber so that he could chuckle at the changing shapes of approaching people, particularly dignified British diplomats...
...local parish. They all slept on the floor at first, but Brother Matthias managed to beg 20 beds and blankets, cooking utensils and food. They called themselves the Brothers of the Good Shepherd and last January opened their doors to the poor. Last month Archbishop Byrne blessed their garb-white cassocks without cowls. After a year or two, if all goes well, a committee of investigation will report on the brotherhood to the archbishop, who will then recommend to the Vatican whether the brotherhood should be recognized as a new order...
...since it opened in 1701, the academy on the Piazza della Minerva has had a checkered career. Three times popes have seen fit to close it. In 1829 a contemporary chronicler wrote: "If in the city or in some fashionable salon you meet a young man wearing perfumed ecclesiastical garb and whose hair is much pomaded and who shows other outward signs of levity, you cannot be mistaken if you come to the conclusion that he either belongs to the Ecclesiastical Academy, or pretends...
Dressed in the scarlet death-cell garb, the seven condemned Nazis waited in Landsberg prison for their midnight appointment with the hangman. The hearses with the empty coffins were ready to take the bodies to home-town cemeteries. Late in the evening the men said goodbye to their wives...