noun · countable / uncountable · rare

garb

garb · garbs

плаття, сукня, одяг

одежда, наряд

Kleid, Kleidung

Fashion, style of dressing oneself upFashion, style of dressing oneself up.

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/ɡɑː(ɹ)b/

» He was dressed in a minister's garb.

Meaning

5 senses

(countable, uncountable)Fashion, style of dressing oneself up.
(countable, uncountable)A type of dress or clothing.
оде́ждаodéžda, наря́дnarjád
(countable, figuratively, uncountable)A guise, external appearance.
A wheatsheaf.
A measure of arrows in the Middle Ages.

More definitions

clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion

Examples

5 sentences

He was dressed in a minister's garb.
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Dressed in ceremonial garb, he began the ritual.
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Rodrigo saw several other men in white garb.
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She is garbed in furs.
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Red is, indeed, the chief element of beauty in floral nature, the prime ornament of the green garb of the vegetal kingdom.
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Origin

From Middle French garbe ("graceful outline, silhouette"; > Modern French galbe), from Ita

From Middle French garbe ("graceful outline, silhouette"; > Modern French galbe), from Italian garbo (“grace, elegance”), from Germanic (compare Old High German garwi, garawi (“dress, equipment, preparation”), Middle High German gerwe (“outfitting, jewelry, clothing, robe, regalia”), modern German Gärbe, Gerbe and English gear), ultimately from Frankish *garwijan (“to prepare”), from Proto-Germanic *garwijaną (“to prepare”).

From Middle English garbe, from Old French garbe, variant of jarbe; akin to German Garbe. Doublet of gerbe.

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