garb
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 7
- Words With Friends
- 9
- Letters
- 4
Definition of garb
6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- (countable, uncountable)Fashion, style of dressing oneself up.
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noun
- (countable, uncountable)Fashion, style of dressing oneself up.
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(countable, uncountable)A type of dress or clothing.
“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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(countable, figuratively, uncountable)A guise, external appearance.
“You thought, because he could not speak English in the native garb, he could not therefore handle an English cudgel.”
- A wheatsheaf.
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A measure of arrows in the Middle Ages.
“Yorkshire supplied 500 bows, and 580 garbs of arrows, 360 of which had iron heads pointed with steel.”
verb
- (transitive)To dress in garb.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
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”).
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