Garb Definition

gärb
garbs
noun
garbs
Manner or style of clothing, esp. as characteristic of an occupation, profession, or rank.
Clerical garb.
Webster's New World
Style; manner.
Webster's New World
External form or appearance.
Webster's New World

Fashion, style of dressing oneself up [from late 16th c.]

Wiktionary

(heraldry) A wheat sheaf.

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verb
garbs
To clothe; dress; attire.
Webster's New World
To dress in garb.
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Other Word Forms of Garb

Noun

Singular:
garb
Plural:
garbs

Origin of Garb

  • From Middle French garbe (“graceful outline”) (Modern French galbe), from Italian garbo (“grace, elegance”), perhaps from Germanic (compare Old High German garwi, garawi (“dress, equipment, preparation”) and English gear).

    From Wiktionary

  • Obsolete French garbe grace from Italian garbo from garbare to please of Germanic origin

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • French gerbe; akin to German Garbe

    From Wiktionary

Garb Sentence Examples

  • With shaking hands, she dressed in the simple garb of a page and pulled her hood to cover her face.

  • In that garb he'd make a better spectator than anything else.

  • One look at her disheveled '70s garb, and she decided to change into pajamas.

  • Scott justly observed that Defoe's style "is the last which should be attempted by a writer of inferior genius; for though it be possible to disguise mediocrity by fine writing, it appears in all its naked inanity when it assumes the garb of simplicity."

  • They wear a distinctive garb and are not allowed to carry arms or live in the same quarter as Moslems. Another foreign element of considerable strength in the coast towns of Muscat, Aden and Jidda, is the British Indian trading class; many families of Indian origin also have settled at Mecca, having originally come as pilgrims.

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Words Starting With

GGAGAR

Words Ending With

BRBARB

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Words Starting With G and Ending With B

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4 Letter Words4 Letter Words Starting With G4 Letter Words Ending With B