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Definition of 'garb'English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) and (etyl) gear).
Noun
( en-noun)
Fashion, style of dressing oneself up.
A type of dress or clothing.
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*: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.
(lb) A guise, external appearance.
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:You thought, because he could not speak English in the native garb , he could not therefore handle an English cudgel.
Etymology 2
(etyl) gerbe; akin to German Garbe
Noun
( en-noun)
(heraldiccharge) A wheat sheaf.
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.''
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