garb
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See also: gʻarb
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡɑː(ɹ)b/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)b
Etymology 1
From Middle French garbe ("graceful outline, silhouette"; > Modern French galbe), from Italian garbo (“grace, elegance”), from Germanic (compare Old High German garwi, garawi (“dress, equipment, preparation”), Middle High German gerwe (“outfitting, jewelry, clothing, robe, regalia”), modern German Gärbe, Gerbe and English gear), ultimately from Frankish *garwijan (“to prepare”), from Proto-Germanic *garwijaną (“to prepare”).
Noun
garb (countable and uncountable, plural garbs)
- Fashion, style of dressing oneself up. [from late 16thc.]
- A type of dress or clothing. [from early 17thc.]
- 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. […] Indeed, all his features were in large mold, like the man himself, as though he had come from a day when skin garments made the proper garb of men.
- (figurative) A guise, external appearance.
- 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
- You thought, because he could not speak English in the native garb, he could not therefore handle an English cudgel.
Derived terms
Translations
clothing
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Verb
garb (third-person singular simple present garbs, present participle garbing, simple past and past participle garbed)
- (transitive) To dress in garb.
Translations
Etymology 2
From French gerbe; akin to German Garbe. Doublet of gerbe.
Noun
garb (plural garbs)
- (heraldry) A wheatsheaf.
- A measure of arrows in the Middle Ages.
- 1957, H. R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, page 118:
- Yorkshire supplied 500 bows, and 580 garbs of arrows, 360 of which had iron heads pointed with steel.
Translations
wheat sheaf
measure of arrows
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Anagrams
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old Polish garb, from Proto-Slavic *gъrbъ.
Noun
garb m animal or m inan (diminutive garbek or garbik)
- hump (rounded fleshy mass)
- hump (deformity of the human back)
- dead weight (that which is useless or excess)
- Synonyms: balast, obciążenie
Declension
Declension of garb
Derived terms
adjectives
nouns
- garbiak
- garbienie
- garbus
verbs
- garbić impf
Related terms
nouns
- garbacizna
- garbatek
- garbatka
- garbatość
- garbusek
- garbusik
- garbuska
- gurba
verbs
- garbacić impf
- garbacieć impf
- zgarbić pf
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
garb
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