garnishing

Verb

garnish (third-person singular simple present garnishes, present participle garnishing, simple past and past participle garnished)

1. To decorate with ornaments; to adorn; to embellish.
   • And all within with flowres was garnished,1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 253
2. To ornament with something placed around it.
   • a dish garnished with a sprig/spray of parsley
3. (archaic) To furnish; to supply.
   • By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 26:13
4. (archaic, slang) To fit with fetters; to fetter.
5. To warn by garnishment; to give notice to.
6. To have (money) set aside by court order (particularly for the payment of alleged debts); to garnishee.
   • When the editorial board of Fire met again, we did not plan a new issue, but emptied our pockets to help poor Thurman whose wages were being garnished weekly because he had signed for the printer’s bills.1966, Langston Hughes, “The Twenties: Harlem and Its Negritude”, in Christopher C. De Santis, editor, The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, volume 9, page 473

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