garb

[ gahrb ]

/ gɑrb /

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noun

a fashion or mode of dress, especially of a distinctive, uniform kind: in the garb of a monk.

wearing apparel; clothes.

outward appearance or form.

verb (used with object)

to dress; clothe.

Origin of garb

1585–95; < Middle French garbe graceful outline < Old Italian garbo grace < Germanic; compare Old High German garawen, Old English gearwian to prepare, adorn (see gar²), gear

SYNONYMS FOR garb

1 style, cut.

2 clothing, dress, costume, attire.

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OTHER WORDS FROM garb

garb·less, adjective un·der·garb, noun un·garbed, adjective

Words nearby garb

garaging, garam masala, garamond, garand, garand rifle, garb, garbage, garbage can, garbage collection, garbage in, garbage out, garbage truck

Example sentences from the Web for garb

One depicts a procession of figures wearing both Mayan and Spanish garb, some holding what appear to be human hearts.

7 Historically Significant Artifacts Rescued by Happenstance |The Daily Beast |October 24, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Her knack for modeling is evident in the pictures: in one, she dons traditional Chinese garb and smiles naturally for the camera.

Ralph Lauren Child Model, From Roadside to Runway |Claire Stern |May 23, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Their garb lent them either the gravitas the Republican bench has previously lacked, or the doleful aspect of ushers at a funeral.

Huckabee Grills GOP Candidates in Republican Presidential Forum |Lloyd Grove |December 4, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
Dunn donned his best medieval garb in front of a castle only to be knocked over in his chair… over and over again.

'Jackass' Star Ryan Dunn’s Wildest Moments |The Daily Beast Video |June 20, 2011 |DAILY BEAST

There were joyous gasps of surprise, reintroductions, and a collective marveling at the photographs and garb of a shared past.

Communist Couture |Caroline Winter |July 8, 2009 |DAILY BEAST
It is the garb most likely to obscure and set backward even a Walpole or a Chesterfield in any impression of gentility.

The President |Alfred Henry Lewis
So far as her garb is concerned, a Turkish woman to-day is a sere and198 withered leaf.

Constantinople painted by Warwick Goble |Alexander Van Millingen
Bebel's exhaustive work, here put in English garb, does this double work unerringly.

Woman under socialism |August Bebel
He was a man of middle height, but of extremely powerful frame, and was habited in the garb of a fisherman.

Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines |R.M. Ballantyne
You cannot make the present fill the garb of the past, Milverton, any more than you could make the past fill that of the present.

Friends in Council |Arthur Helps

British Dictionary definitions for garb

garb

/ (ɡɑːb) /

noun

clothes, esp the distinctive attire of an occupation or profession clerical garb

style of dress; fashion

external appearance, covering, or attire

verb

(tr) to clothe or cover; attire

Derived forms of garb

garbless, adjective

Word Origin for garb

C16: from Old French garbe graceful contour, from Old Italian garbo grace, probably of Germanic origin

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