Free Translator Free Translator
Translators Dictionaries Courses Other
Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Garnish   /gˈɑrnɪʃ/   Listen
verb
Garnish  v. t.  (past & past part. garnished; pres. part. garnishing)  
1.
To decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish. "All within with flowers was garnished."
2.
(Cookery) To ornament, as a dish, with something laid about it; as, a dish garnished with parsley.
3.
To furnish; to supply.
4.
To fit with fetters. (Cant)
5.
(Law) To warn by garnishment; to give notice to; to garnishee. See Garnishee, v. t.


noun
Garnish  n.  
1.
Something added for embellishment; decoration; ornament; also, dress; garments, especially such as are showy or decorated. "So are you, sweet, Even in the lovely garnish of a boy." "Matter and figure they produce; For garnish this, and that for use."
2.
(Cookery) Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment, such as parsley. See Garnish, v. t., 2.
3.
Fetters. (Cant)
4.
A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded by the old prisoners of a newcomer. (Cant)
Garnish bolt (Carp.), a bolt with a chamfered or faceted head.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Garnish" Quotes from Famous Books



... went forward and I saw that Herdegen danced first with Ursula and then with Ann. Then they stood still near the flower shrubs which were placed round about the hall to garnish it, and it might have been weened from their demeanor that they had quarrelled and had come to high words. I would fain have gone to them, but the Queen had bid me stay with her and never ceased asking me a hundred questions as to ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... cheerfully, "Oh, I daresay it will be ready by supper!" But it was not: not a bit of it. Of course we searched in those delusive cookery books, but they only told us what sauces to serve with a roasted pig, or how to garnish it, entering minutely into a disquisition upon whether a lemon or an orange had better be stuck into its mouth. We wanted to know how to cook it, and why it would not get itself baked. About an hour before supper-time I grew desperate at the anticipation of the "chaff" Alice and I would certainly ...
— Station Amusements • Lady Barker
... me whether any particular circumstance of Luther's life led him to adopt this motto, or otherwise identified it with his name; or whether the text was merely selected by some admirer after his death, to garnish ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 206, October 8, 1853 • Various
... then cast it off the Rod into a Dish, in the which you have first fastened half a Manchet with some Butter on the bottom, and a long Rosemary sprig in the middle; when you have all cast the Snow on the dish, then garnish it with several ...
— The Queen-like Closet or Rich Cabinet • Hannah Wolley
... lesser considerations, and I must be satisfied if I can only be considered the horse-radish to garnish the roast beef. ...
— Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez, Vol. I • Sir John Ross


More quotes...


Copyright © 2025 Free-Translator.com