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

At the gare next morning, Miss Clifford, having selected a likely train, leaned forward in her brother's car and eagerly scanned each arrival as he issued from the exit.

From Juggernaut by Campbell, Alice

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 Aldrich, Mildred

I could learn nothing of the Boy or his movements, at the gare of Chambéry.

From The Princess Passes by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)

The red signal of a distant gare, or station, or the white gleam of an approaching vessel's masthead light, shone from the void like low-pitched stars.

From The Wheel O' Fortune by Tracy, Louis

"Here you are, Jack," the Major cordially cried, as they sought the rear room of the neat cafe opposite the gare.

From A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story by Savage, Richard

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 Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)

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 Jenner, Henry

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 Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)

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 Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

"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 Leland, Charles Godfrey