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

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Etymology

Origin of gare

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

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Example Sentences

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gare gares

"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 Richard Savage

Then loud, loud cry'd the Clerk Colvill, "O my head it pains me sair;" "Then take, then take," the maiden said, 25 "And frae my sark you'll cut a gare."

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various

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

From The Belovéd Vagabond by William John Locke

Society has its laws, which must be obeyed: if not, gare!

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 86, February, 1875 by Various

The tavern is just opposite the gare, where there will soon be a train.

From The Enormous Room by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings

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

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

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

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