robe-maker

I took him to a robe-maker to have something made up, a short tunic proper to his age, and a red shoulder-cloak.

The Praise Singer Renault, Mary 1978

So I found the best robe-maker (there were so many Persians in camp, that craftsmen followed them) and he made it with the real elaborate drapings.

The Persian Boy Renault, Mary 1972

The shop of the royal robe-maker had been at work two days and a night upon my tragic robe.

The Mask of Apollo Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1966

Divinity to speak, but does not presume to employ his person; the majesty of Infinitude utters itself, but no robe-maker undertakes to dress it for the occasion.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 Various

Do we see in our mind’s eye what Webb or any other robe-maker could pattern?

On the Tragedies of Shakspere Considered with Reference to Their Fitness for Stage Representation 1909

It is true your brother was troublesome when in liquor, but this we always overlooked, knowing it was not his fault, and, aside from liquor, he was a good man � a good robe-maker, whom the chief of the post thought a great deal of.

Forty years a fur trader on the upper Missouri: the personal narrative of Charles Larpenteur, 1833-1872 1898

There were Mr. Harris, the law-stationer, and Mr. Jennings, the robe-maker (two jolly young fellows like himself), and Jones, the barrister's clerk -- rum fellow that Jones -- capital company -- full of anecdote!

Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people Charles Dickens 1841