They would remember her age fast enough then, and how short a time ago she had put off a novice dress; they might even begin thinking of her as a foolish child again.

Squeezing her pouch under cover of the novice dress, she felt the peculiar ring, the ter'angreal, inside.

Her eyes flicked to the corner of the papers sticking out from under the novice dress in Egwene's hands, then back to Egwene's face immediately.

She was more than merely stout, with layers of chins, and a spotless white apron that could have made three novice dresses.

Her white novice dresses were packed away; she wore brown wool her mother might have sewn, the skirt tied up to her knees to keep it out of the dirt.

The sergeant glowered at Edeard, but was marginally less hostile to Salrana when he saw she was in her full novice dress.

The plainly cut novice dress appeared somehow more, on her.

Careane nodded, her stern gaze measuring Aviendha for a novice dress.

Elaida came over, her arms filled with Egwene's novice dress and shoes, her belt and pouch.

The camp now held half again as many novices as sisters, so many that few possessed a proper white cloak and most made do with a simple white skirt instead of a novice dress.