Definition of "long robe"
long robe
noun
uncountable
(with definite article, now rare) The legal profession.
Quotations
[H]e contracted intimacies in some families of good fashion, especially those of the long robe, which would have enabled him to pass his time very agreeably, had he been a little easier in point of fortune […] .
1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […]