Garb

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɡɑː(ɹ)b/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)b

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).

Full definition of garb

Noun

1. Fashion, style of dressing oneself up. from late 16th c.
2. A type of dress or clothing. from early 17th c.
• 1910, Emerson Hough, The Purchase Price Chapter 1, 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.
3. (figurative) 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.

Verb

1. (transitive) To dress in garb.

French gerbe; akin to German Garbe

Noun

1. (heraldiccharge) A wheat sheaf.
2. 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.''

Anagrams

• brag
• grab