garb
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French garbe (“graceful outline”) (Modern French galbe), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Italian garbo (“grace, elegance”), perhaps from Germanic (compare Old High German garwi, garawi (“dress, equipment, preparation”) and English gear), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *garwijaną (“to prepare”).
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.]
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- 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.
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- (figurative) A guise, external appearance.
- 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:}
- You thought, because he could not speak English in the native garb, he could not therefore handle an English cudgel.
Translations
clothing
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Verb
garb (third-person singular simple present garbs, present participle garbing, simple past and past participle garbed)
- (transitive) To dress in garb.
Translations
to dress in garb
Etymology 2
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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
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Polish
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *gъrbъ, *gъrba
Pronunciation
Noun
garb m inan
Declension
Declension of garb
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