garb
garb
Definition
garb (gärb)
noun
- clothing; manner or style of dress, esp. as characteristic of an occupation, profession, or rank clerical garb
- external form or appearance
- Obsolete style; manner
Etymology: OFr garbe, gracefulness < It garbo, elegance < ? Gmc *garwī > OHG gar(a)wen, to prepare, dress, ornament
transitive verb
to clothe; dress; attire
garb
Synonyms
garb
n.
Clothes
clothing, outfit, attire; see clothes.Outward appearance
guise, form, semblance; see appearance 1.
garb
Usage Examples
Object
- man: The effect of these strangely garbed men marching through endless corridors seems very Kafka!
Converse of object
- don: Stubbornly embracing the American dream, desperate to be a hero, George dons superhero garb and performs good deeds.
- wear: The deadly sin of Pride is most insidious when it wears the garb of humility, like a wolf in sheep's clothing.
- assume: Yet hostility to such endowments often assumes the garb of a generous and high-minded patriotism.
- adopt: Months passed and Churchward gradually changed his dress from the very English fashion of the time, to adopting native garb.
Adjective modifier
- clerical: But why does he stare at her so, this shy and lonely Oxford don in clerical garb?
- strange: I think part of the horror lies in the strange garb with so many buttons.
- traditional: Planting a tree in the West Coast of Africa among the people in their colorful, traditional garb.
- black: Sabartés was known to wear black garb and to sport mournful, almost tragic expression.
- religious: We want you to let your imagination run wild and tell us which of these hunks would look best dressed in religious garb.
Modifying Another Word
- strangely: The effect of these strangely garbed men marching through endless corridors seems very Kafka!
Noun used with modifier
- prison: Since she is in prison garb, one of the men takes it upon himself to whack her over the head with a baton.
- winter: The Cuillin Ridge is still in full winter garb with the snow pack solid from just above 2000 ' .
- workhouse: While in the infirmary, patients wore workhouse garb and their own clothing was stored away after being fumigated if necessary.
- designer: Strip away the foundation powder designer garb, big mouth bravado and delve behind closed doors - and what will we find?
Possessives
- pilgrim: The first is Saint James in his pilgrim's garb, as if about to set out for Santiago de Compostella.
Preposition: in
- robe: She was slightly over fifty years of age, handsome, and garbed in the orange robe of a nun.
Preposition: of
- field: Arms of Oldfield: Or, on a pile Azure, three garbs of the field.
- Christianity: The world, not even disguised in the garb of Christianity, is sought for the sake of material support.
garb Quotes
Thus Belial with words clothed in reason's garb Counselled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, Not peace.
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