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

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 Louis Tracy

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

From The Belovéd Vagabond by William John Locke

Passing the railway-station, we stopped to make some inquiries, and promptly ascertained all we wished to know from the chef de gare.

From The White Road to Verdun by Kathleen Burke

I often saw trains stop in what is called a gare regulatrice, where the prisoners are questioned and distributed.

From Fighting France by John Lauris Blake Williams

Vot I gare off you keek my nose Downside-up mit your heels und toes— Downside, oder der oopside-down—?

From Afterwhiles by James Whitcomb Riley

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

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

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

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

"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