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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Garb" Quotes from Famous Books

... him either way—and the incident came in the shape of a very tall old man who wore the Irish garb of belted, long-sleeved tunic and woolen hose, with iron-soled shoes. The old man's face was cunning, but his eyes were bright and keen and deep gray; his gray hair hung low to conceal his lopped ears, and there hung about him an indescribable air of shrewdness faced with ...

— Nuala O'Malley • H. Bedford-Jones

... from my ruminations by a light tap on the shoulder. Judge of my astonishment when Meg Merrillies stood before me, clad in the same wild gipsy garb in which she had warned the Laird of Ellangowan on Ellangowan's height! In her shriveled hand it would seem she held the very sapling which for the last time she had plucked from the bonny woods which had so long waved above her bit shealing, until driven thence by the timorous and weak-minded ...

— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 • Various

... in a garb of the most somber black, strolled about, hoping to find his Portia. Priscilla was there, in her collar and cap, but where was John Alden? Would the dainty little Bo-peep, who looked like a bisque doll, ...

— The Motor Girls • Margaret Penrose

... orders of friars of later history. Yet even the decree of a council could not stay the growth of new mendicant types. In 1257 the Friars of the Penance of Jesus Christ, popularly styled Friars of the Sack, from their coarse sackcloth garb, settled down in London, exempted by papal dispensation from the fate of suppression; and even later than this King Richard's son, Edmund of Cornwall, established a community of ...

— The History of England - From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) • T.F. Tout

... in clerical garb—a thin-chested man with a colorless face, but with sad, benevolent eyes—sitting in the plaza near the sinister old cuartel. He sat down and asked abruptly in a voice strangely high-pitched ...

— Children of the Desert • Louis Dodge

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