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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.






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"Garnish" Quotes from Famous Books



... though uneducated, see visions and dream dreams, and they, too, hope to administer the country in their own way—that is to say, with a garnish of Red Sauce. Such men must exist among two hundred million people, and, if they are not attended to, may cause trouble and even break the great idol called Pax Britannic, which, as the newspapers ...
— Indian Tales • Rudyard Kipling

... that Janet received her henchmen. And was there ever man so happy as our good Aminadab?—and that for several human reasons, whereof the first was certainly the Logie flesh-pots; the second, the stories about the romantic place wherewith she contrived to garnish and spice these savoury mouthfuls; and last, Janet herself, who was always under the feminine delusion that she was the corporate representative of the first of these reasons, if, indeed, the others were not mere adjecta, not to ...
— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XXIII. • Various

... a garnish around spring chicken, or with fried sweet-breads, when the white sauce should be poured over both. In this case it should be made by adding the cream, flour and seasoning to the little grease (half a teaspoon) that is left after frying ...
— The Cauliflower • A. A. Crozier

... his cheeks, that beset his bed in a moving ring—this one pushing out a writ, and that rumpling open a parchment deed, and the other fumbling with his keys, and extending his open palm for the garnish. Avaunt. He had found out a charm to rout them all, and they sha'n't now lay a finger on him—a short and sharp way to clear himself; and so ...
— The House by the Church-Yard • J. Sheridan Le Fanu

... the harbor. Quick, the glasses! "Steady my hand, Suzuki, that I may read the name." It is the Abraham Lincoln, Pinkerton's ship! Now the cherry tree must give up its every blossom, every bush or vine its violets and jessamines to garnish the room for his welcome! The garden is stripped bare, vases are filled, the floor is strewn with petals. Perfumes exhale from the voices of the women and the song of the orchestra. Here local color loses its right; the music is all Occidental. Butterfly is ...
— A Second Book of Operas • Henry Edward Krehbiel


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