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

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

This is the street to the gare, and we'll run right along.

From Seeing France with Uncle John by Warner, Anne

As I drove to the gare of St. Raphael, I thought of the kind boys who had helped our poor poilus, and especially of James Beckett.

From Everyman's Land by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)

I found him ten years afterwards a sous-chef de gare on the Belgian frontier.

From The Belovéd Vagabond by Locke, William John

Thus, to give a few typical examples of the many in Mr. Skeat's notes: in Kersey's dictionary occurs the word gare, defined as "cause."

From A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

"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

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)

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

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