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Webster 1913 Edition
Garb
Garb
(gärb)
, Noun.
[OF. ]
garbe
looks, countenance, grace, ornament, fr. OHG. garawī
, garwī
, ornament, dress. akin to E. gear
. See Gear
, Noun.
1.
(a)
Clothing in general.
(b)
The whole dress or suit of clothes worn by any person, especially when indicating rank or office;
as, the
. garb
of a clergyman or a judge(c)
Costume; fashion;
as, the
. garb
of a gentleman in the 16th century2.
External appearance, as expressive of the feelings or character; looks; fashion or manner, as of speech.
You thought, because he could not speak English in the native
garb
, he could not therefore handle an English cudgel. Shakespeare
Garb
(gärb)
, Noun.
[F.
gerbe
, OF. also garbe
, OHG. garba
, G. garbe
; cf. Skr. gṛbh
to seize, E. grab
.] (Her.)
A sheaf of grain (wheat, unless otherwise specified).
Garb
,Verb.
T.
To clothe; array; deck.
These black dog-Dons
Garb
themselves bravely. Tennyson.
Webster 1828 Edition
Garb
G`ARB
,Noun.
1.
Dress; clothes; habit; as the garb of a clergyman or judge.2.
Fashion or mode of dress.3.
Exterior appearance; looks.4.
In heraldry, a sheaf of corn.Definition 2024
garb
garb
English
Noun
garb (countable and uncountable, plural garbs)
- Fashion, style of dressing oneself up. [from late 16thc.]
- A type of dress or clothing. [from early 17thc.]
- 1915, Emerson Hough, The Purchase Price, chapterI:
- This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. […] Indeed, all his features were in large mold, like the man himself, as though he had come from a day when skin garments made the proper garb of men.
- 1915, Emerson Hough, The Purchase Price, chapterI:
- (figuratively) A guise, external appearance.
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
- You thought, because he could not speak English in the native garb, he could not therefore handle an English cudgel.
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Translations
clothing
Verb
garb (third-person singular simple present garbs, present participle garbing, simple past and past participle garbed)
- (transitive) To dress in garb.
Translations
Etymology 2
French gerbe; akin to German Garbe
Noun
garb (plural garbs)
- (heraldry) A wheat sheaf.
- A measure of arrows in the Middle Ages.
- 1957, H. R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, page 118.
- Yorkshire supplied 500 bows, and 580 garbs of arrows, 360 of which had iron heads pointed with steel.
- 1957, H. R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, page 118.
Translations
wheat sheaf
|
measure of arrows
Anagrams
Polish
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *gъrbъ, *gъrba
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈgarb/
Noun
garb m inan
Declension
declension of garb
Related terms
- garbaty
- garbus
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