cedar robe

noun

1. Dialect. a cedar chest or cedar-lined wardrobe.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cedar robe¹

First recorded in 1965–70

Example Sentences

At the seven o'clock whistle of a mill he wheeled about toward the town, and saw there, almost overhanging it, the mountain, bright in the morning, streaked with white, lifting a rugged head through the gray-green poncho of its cedar robe, a wondrous pile capped by the one lone tower that watched, forever watched, above the vast expanse of plains.

From Project Gutenberg

So they rode through the sage to the trailing cedar robe and followed upward till the upper edge of the fragrant woods was reached.

From Project Gutenberg