garb

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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)

  1. Fashion, style of dressing oneself up. [from late 16thc.]
  2. 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.
  3. (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.
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Verb

garb (third-person singular simple present garbs, present participle garbing, simple past and past participle garbed)

  1. (transitive) To dress in garb.
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Etymology 2

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] French gerbe; akin to German Garbe

Noun

garb (plural garbs)

  1. (heraldry) A wheat sheaf.
  2. 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.
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Anagrams

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *gъrbъ, *gъrba

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡarp/
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Noun

garb m inan

  1. a hump (rounded fleshy mass)
  2. a hump (deformity of the human back)

Declension

Declension of garb
singular plural
nominative garb garby
genitive garbu garbów
dative garbowi garbom
accusative garb garby
instrumental garbem garbami
locative garbie garbach
vocative garbie garby

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