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noun

Garb n.

(a)

Clothing in general.

(b)

The whole dress or suit of clothes worn by any person, especially when indicating rank or office; as, the garb of a clergyman or a judge.

(c)

Costume; fashion; as, the garb of a gentleman in the 16th century.

External appearance, as expressive of the feelings or character; looks; fashion or manner, as of speech. "You thought, because he could not speak English in the native garb, he could not therefore handle an English cudgel."

Garb n. (Her.) A sheaf of grain (wheat, unless otherwise specified).

verb

Garb v. t. To clothe; array; deck. "These black dog-Dons Garb themselves bravely."

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Etymology of 'Garb'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Garb" Quotes from Famous Books

... thought of all that must have happened to him since he paced through that arch. What trials and troubles he had encountered; how he had been shaken by many storms of adversity, and at last died a bankrupt. I looked at my own sorry garb, and had much ado to keep ...

— Redburn. His First Voyage • Herman Melville

... told that Mrs. Glennard was still out, and he went upstairs to his room and dragged the books from his pocket. They lay on the table before him like live things that he feared to touch.... At length he opened the first volume. A familiar letter sprang out at him, each word quickened by its glaring garb of type. The little broken phrases fled across the page like wounded animals in the open.... It was a horrible sight.... A battue of helpless things driven savagely out of shelter. He had not known it would ...

— The Touchstone • Edith Wharton

... palms and evergreens to mark the patriots' deaths, but the vierkleur and the cause remained to spur the living. Generals, commandants, and burghers, no longer in the grimy costumes of the battlefield, but in the black garb of the legislator, filled the circles of chairs; bandoliered burghers, consuls and military attaches in spectacular uniform, business men, and women with tear-stained cheeks filled the auditorium; while on the official benches were the heads of departments ...

— With the Boer Forces • Howard C. Hillegas

... stoop-shouldered old man, with grizzled head and face, and shrewd gray eyes that beamed kindly on her over his ruddy cheeks. Ellen did not like the tobacco stain on his grizzled beard nor the dirty, motley, ragged, ill-smelling garb he wore, but she had ceased her useless attempts to make him ...

— To the Last Man • Zane Grey

... pliable, that knows its proper scene, accommodates itself to it, and teaches a man with propriety and decency to act that part which has fallen to his share. If when one of Plautus's comedies is upon the stage and a company of servants are acting their parts, you should come out in the garb of a philosopher, and repeat out of 'Octavia' a discourse of Seneca's to Nero, would it not be better for you to say nothing than by mixing things of such different natures to make an impertinent tragi-comedy? For you spoil and corrupt ...

— Ideal Commonwealths • Various

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