gare

American  

[gair] / gɛər /

noun

• gares
  plural

1. low-grade wool fibers from the legs of sheep.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• gares
  plural

Etymology

Origin of gare

1535–45; < Anglo-French, variant of Old French gard, jart

Example Sentences

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gare gares

Let this small effusion of ill-nature be my first and last tribute to the whole despotic gare: the deadly salle d'attente, the insufferable delays over one's luggage, the porterless platform, the overcrowded and illiberal train.

From A Little Tour of France by Joseph Pennell

And gare aux femmes, look out and hold your own!

From Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

I think you'll admire her, Frank; but, gare à vous, she's dangerous.

From Guy Livingstone; or, 'Thorough' by George A. (George Alfred) Lawrence

The clock pointed to a quarter to six as Nicolas Pitou, composer, emerged from the gare du Nord, and lightly swinging the valise that contained his wardrobe, proceeded to the rue des Trois Frères.

From A Chair on the Boulevard by Leonard Merrick

I hunted up the chef de gare, and asked him if I could be sure of being able to return if I went up to Paris.

From A Hilltop on the Marne Being Letters Written June 3-September 8, 1914 by Mildred Aldrich

Nine railways entered the city, and the “Ceinture” or girdle railway, which was to bind the various gares, was already conceived.

From Dumas' Paris by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

"Fuenf hoonderd repels hold de down,     One hoonderd strong are ve; Who gares a tam for all de odds     Vhen men so dirsty pe."

From The Breitmann Ballads by Charles Godfrey Leland

The passive of this tense is either:— mî, tî, etc., a gares, or mî, tî, etc., a vê keres.

From A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature by Henry Jenner

Below the quais are deposed nine ports, or gares, each devoted to a special class of merchandise, as coal, wine, produce, timber, etc.

From Dumas' Paris by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

I have never entered one of these gares to take a train that I have not seen hundreds of soldiers entering, leaving, waiting; sometimes lying asleep on the hard floor, always on the benches.

From The Living Present by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton