Garb Definition

gärb
garbs
noun
garbs
Manner or style of clothing, esp. as characteristic of an occupation, profession, or rank.
Clerical garb.
Webster's New World
Style; manner.
Webster's New World
External form or appearance.
Webster's New World

Fashion, style of dressing oneself up [from late 16th c.]

Wiktionary

(heraldry) A wheat sheaf.

Wiktionary
verb
garbs
To clothe; dress; attire.
Webster's New World
To dress in garb.
Wiktionary
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Other Word Forms of Garb

Noun

Singular:
garb
Plural:
garbs

Origin of Garb

  • From Middle French garbe (“graceful outline”) (Modern French galbe), from Italian garbo (“grace, elegance”), perhaps from Germanic (compare Old High German garwi, garawi (“dress, equipment, preparation”) and English gear).

    From Wiktionary

  • Obsolete French garbe grace from Italian garbo from garbare to please of Germanic origin

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • French gerbe; akin to German Garbe

    From Wiktionary

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