garbe

Noun (1)

garb (countable and uncountable, plural garbs)

1. Fashion, style of dressing oneself up.
2. A type of dress or clothing.
   • 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.1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
3. (figuratively) A guise, external appearance.
   • You thought, because he could not speak English in the native garb, he could not therefore handle an English cudgel.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...

Noun (2)

garb (plural garbs)

1. A wheatsheaf.
2. A measure of arrows in the Middle Ages.
   • Yorkshire supplied 500 bows, and 580 garbs of arrows, 360 of which had iron heads pointed with steel.1957, H. R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, page 118

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