gare

American  

[gair] / gɛər /

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of gare

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

Example Sentences

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 Merrick, Leonard

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)

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

The gare de Clermont-Ferrand says there is no place salon-lit or coupé-lit free in the train to-night.

From The Mountebank by Locke, William John