As goddess of the moon, however, Diana wore a long robe, sometimes with a veil covering her head.

Bacon's personal secretary and chaplain, William Rawley, however, wrote in his biography of Bacon that his inter-marriage with Alice Barnham was one of " much conjugal love and respect ", mentioning a robe of honour that he gave to her, and which " she wore unto her dying day, being twenty years and more after his death ".

He decides to explore the cell by placing a hem from his robe against a wall so he can count the paces around the room ; however, he faints before being able to measure the whole perimeter.

Marshall, however, eschewed this formality and began the practice of only wearing a black silk robe, with no wig.

In reality, however, he sees not Him but only His glorious robe, the hem and train of which fill the whole temple of heaven.

He can, however, manifest himself in the " real " world — he appears to Covenant and Linden as an old man in an ochre robe — and guides those who attempt to make contact between the universes.

Despite her increase in power, however, Maleficent is defeated again and fades to darkness, leaving nothing but her robe, with " Ansem " commenting at how she ironically failed to notice the darkness eating away at her own heart.

: a very rich and beautiful woman, who however is thought to have sought marriage with him because of his high rank, and the more eagerly when, in response to her frequent advances, he took off his robe in private and showed her his deformity, so as not to seem to deceive her by concealing it.

Preparing to attend, he began to clothe himself ; however, he soon discovered Muezza sleeping on the sleeve of his robe.

Originally, police chief Clancy Wiggum would be seen in a robe inside the house, implying that other men in Springfield cheat on their wives as well, however it was dismissed because the writers thought it would look " too sad.

There, a new robe of woven wool ( peplos ) was placed on either the statue of Athena Polias in the Erechtheum ( during a regular Panathenaea ) or on the statue of Athena Parthenos in the Parthenon ( during the Great Panathenaea, held every four years ).

In the Baptism service the signing with the cross was moved until after the baptism and the exorcism, the anointing, the putting on of the chrysom robe and the triple immersion were omitted.

Monet's Camille or The Woman in the Green Dress ( La femme à la robe verte ), painted in 1866, brought him recognition and was one of many works featuring his future wife, Camille Doncieux ; she was the model for the figures in Women in the Garden of the following year, as well as for On the Bank of the Seine, Bennecourt, 1868, pictured here.

For example in the mid 350 ’ s the city of Jerusalem was hit with drastic food shortages at which point church historians Sozomen and Theodoret reported “ Cyril secretly sold sacramental ornaments of the church and a valuable holy robe, fashioned with gold thread that the emperor Constantine had once donated for the bishop to wear when he performed the rite of Baptism ”.

Early Roman Emperors avoided any type of ceremony or regalia different from what was already usual for republican offices in the Roman Republic: the most intrusive change had been changing the color of their robe to purple.

The goddess ' appearance offered contrasting colours to the eye, for her body was dazzling white, intimating her descent from heaven and her robe was dark blue, denoting her emergence from the sea ... But now becomingly took the centre of the stage to the great acclamation of the theatre, and smiled sweetly ... still more affectingly began to gently stir herself ; with gradual, lingering steps, restrained swaying of the hips, and slow inclination of the head she began to advance, her refined movements matching the soft wounds of the flutes.

Many of the Roman symbols both of war and of civil office date from his reign, and he was the first to celebrate a Roman triumph, after the Etruscan fashion, wearing a robe of purple and gold, and borne on a chariot drawn by four horses.

... the maid of honor, Miss Annie Stephens, was as pretty as a French pastel, in a directoire costume of yellow satin with a long coat of green velvet sleeves, and a vest of gold brocade ... The bride was a fair vision of youthful loveliness in her robe of exquisite ivory white and satin ... her slippers were white satin wrought with pearls ... an elegant supper was served.

It was a whiteness beyond anything earthly I had ever seen .… His hands were naked and his arms also a little above the wrists .… Not only was his robe exceedingly white but his whole person was glorious beyond description ".

As Chief Astronomer, Zhang Heng earned a fixed salary and rank of 600 bushels of grain ( which was mostly commuted to payments in Chinese coins | coinage currency or bolts of silk ), and so he would have worn a specified type of robe, ridden in a specified type of carriage, and held a unique emblem that marked his status in the official hierarchy.

When Mariner 9 arrived at Mars on 14 November 1971, planetary scientists were surprised to find the atmosphere was thick with " a planet-wide robe of dust, the largest storm ever observed.

Besides arguing that Arlequin be a character of Sufi origins, Idries Shah also wrote a chapter of The Sufis on the sufi influence over Saint Francis, arguing him having adopted the patched robe as his only garment was a clear example of a sufi influence ( Shah, I.

A legend has it that while a friar he was approached by the ageing Nostradamus who knelt, kissed the friar's robe and then exclaimed he was kissing the robe of the future pope ..

More importantly was the abandonment of heavy make-up and the popular wide-hooped panniers for a more simple feminine look, typified first by the rustic robe à la polonaise and later by the ' gaulle ,' a simple muslin dress that she wore in a 1783 Vigée-Le Brun portrait.

In the church " the purple " is a euphemism for blood and therefore " wearing the purple " may be a reference to martyrdom or a bishop's robe.

Diderot's miscellaneous pieces range from a graceful trifle like the Regrets sur ma vieille robe de chambre ( Regrets for my Old Dressing Gown ) up to Le rêve de D ' Alembert, where he plunges into the depths of the controversy as to the ultimate constitution of matter and the meaning of life.

" Haman thought the king meant himself, so he said that the man should wear a royal robe and be led on one of the king's horses through the city streets proclaiming before him, " This is what is done for the man the king delights to honor!

" Along with other gifts ," only two gifts are specifically mentioned: a white linen robe for Frigg and a golden ring for Fulla.

In the above excerpt, the actress playing Aphrodite enters the stage, naked except for a thin silken robe that she had taken off her shoulders and only holds over her genitals for modesty.

There is a tradition for the person leading the Seder to wear a white robe called a kittel.

Eastern art has generally worked in a style akin to Western medieval art, namely a concentration on surface patterning and local colour ( meaning the plain colour of an object, such as basic red for a red robe, rather than the modulations of that colour brought about by light, shade and reflection ).

He loosens the belt of the baptismal robe and prays for him, that God may preserve the newly-illumined in purity and illumine him by grace.

" Taking the love god as the mediator of their emotions for each other, they sailed together as it were on the same vessel of life ... nor did they restrict their affectionate friendship to the limits of Hellas .... as soon as they set foot on the land of the Tauride, the Fury of matricides was there to welcome the strangers, and, when the natives stood around them, the one was struck to the ground by his usual madness and lay there, but Pylades ' did wipe away the foam and tend his frame and shelter him with a fine well-woven robe ,' thus showing the feelings not merely of a lover, but also of a father.

Stehle argues that the maidens of the Partheneion carry a plough ( or, in the most translations: a robe ) for the goddess of Dawn.

In Diodorus, Eriphyle persuades her son to join the attackers because she is bribed by Thersander to do so in exchange for the robe of Harmonia, just as she was bribed by Polynices with the necklace of Harmonia to send her husband into battle.

She had heard of the famous necklace and robe of Harmonia, and asks Alcmaeon to get them for her.

" Taking the love god as the mediator of their emotions for each other, they sailed together as it were on the same vessel of life ... nor did they restrict their affectionate friendship to the limits of Hellas .... as soon as they set foot on the land of the Tauride, the Fury of matricides was there to welcome the strangers, and, when the natives stood around them, the one was struck to the ground by his usual madness and lay there, but Pylades ' did wipe away the foam and tend his frame and shelter him with a fine well-woven robe ,' thus showing the feelings not merely of a lover, but also of a father.

Upon his arrival that evening, before the great banquet she had prepared, Clytemnestra drew a bath for him and when he came out of the bath, she put the royal purple robe on him which had no opening for his head.

It thereafter became an established tradition, which survives to this day, that the Mayor of Sandwich wears a black robe in mourning for this ignoble deed.

* Aba ( Dune ), a type of robe in the fictional Dune universe created by Frank Herbert

In a version by Aratus, Orion took hold of Artemis ' robe and she killed him in self-defense.

She is compared with Penthesilea, mythical queen of the Amazons, by the Greek historian Nicetas Choniates ; he adds that she gained the epithet chrysopous ( golden-foot ) from the cloth of gold that decorated and fringed her robe.

* Kittel, a white robe worn by the groom at an Orthodox Jewish wedding.

The icon often displayed on these days depicts Jesus and is referred to as " the Bridegroom " because the crown of thorns and the robe of mockery are parallel to the crown and robe worn by a bridegroom on his wedding day.

A 17th-century engraving of the robe used by a marquis during this creation ceremony.

Cadmus gave her a robe and the necklace wrought by Hephaestus, which some say was given to Cadmus by Hephaestus, but Pherecydes says that it was given by Europa, who had received it from Zeus.

The robe worn by a baron during his creation ceremony in 17th-century Britain, engraved by Wenceslas Hollar.

The robe was poisoned by the blood of the hydra ( which the arrow that Heracles shot Nessus with had been dipped in ).