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noun
1.
a fashion or mode of dress, especially of a distinctive, uniform kind: in the garb of a monk.
2.
wearing apparel; clothes.
3.
outward appearance or form.
verb (used with object)
4.
to dress; clothe.
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Origin:
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
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
Related forms
garb·less, adjective
un·der·garb, noun
un·garbed, adjective
Synonyms
1. style, cut. 2. clothing, dress, costume, attire.
1. style, cut. 2. clothing, dress, costume, attire.
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Example Sentences
- Buildings project their personalities, whether downtown or uptown, in the carefully chosen garb of the employees at the entrances.
- Promising to be a prolonged spectacle, it was launched with a parade of scores of prominent reformists in prison garb.
- In many villages, men and women still don traditional garb.
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Word Origin & History
garb
1590s, "elegance, stylishness," from M.Fr. garbe "graceful outline," from It. garbo "grace, elegance," perhaps from Gmc. (cf. O.H.G. gar(a)wi "dress, equipment, preparation;" see gear). Sense of "fashion of dress" is first attested 1620s. The verb is from 1836. Related: Garbed.
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