garb

1585–95; <Middle French garbe graceful outline <Old Italian garbo grace <Germanic; compare Old High German garawen,Old English gearwian to prepare, adorn (see gar²), gear

OTHER WORDS FROM garb

garbless, adjectiveun·der·garb, nounun·garbed, adjective

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How to use garb in a sentence

While Twain loved to be colorfully garbed, he began experimenting with wearing all white as early as the 1870s.
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“What Obama has done so far is about perfect,” Kadivar, garbed in his traditional cleric's robes, said.
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Ito was accompanied at the party by four men in identical black suits who looked wildly out of place in the hippie-garbed crowd.
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The Maker of Sounds was garbed in an all-enveloping white burnous and a white skull cap.
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The slender strangely garbed Terran might be of the same blood as his own, but he was as great an enemy as Those Others!
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Full moonlight fell on the armor he was garbed in and made it, as well as the high helmet with waving plumes, glitter brightly.
Maezli|Johanna Spyri
She stood over him, slender, and simply garbed in a blue calico dress and a blue calico sun-bonnet.
The Code of the Mountains|Charles Neville Buck
Through the iron palings they could see a white-garbed figure walking with measured tread amid the shrubs of the frozen garden.
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British Dictionary definitions for garb

garb

/ (ɡɑːb) /

noun

clothes, esp the distinctive attire of an occupation or professionclerical garb

style of dress; fashion

external appearance, covering, or attire

verb

(tr) to clothe or cover; attire

Derived forms of garb

garbless, adjective

Word Origin for garb

C16: from Old French garbe graceful contour, from Old Italian garbo grace, probably of Germanic origin

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