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• Between courses, the banqueters were entertained by minstrels in medieval garb.From the entry banqueter
• She's garbed her philanthropic activities in anonymity.From the entry anonymity
• He was adorn'd in his best garb.From the entry adorn'd
• But today they’re Darrell and Devante Caldwell, co-defendants in royal blue prison garb.2019 February 5, Torii MacAdams, “The New Generation of LA Rap Is Changing Everything”, in VICE. From the entry Caldwell
• As bad decisions are dressed up in pseudo-analytical garb, ministerial officials may become unduly cynical about analysis.2017, Patsy Healey, Jean Hillier, Foundations of the Planning Enterprise, →ISBN. From the entry pseudo-analytical
• His preferred garb was a satin-trimmed velvet robe and shoes, usually adorned with expensive jewelry.2013, Linda Clark, "The Bhagwan's 93 Rolls-Royces", in Keith Martin, Strange but True Tales of Car Collecting: Drowned Bugattis, Buried…. From the entry out of central casting
• One of the elves, a woman with long auburn hair, was garbed identically to the two dwarves.2007, Clifford B. Bowyer, The Siege of Zoldex, Silver Leaf Books, LLC, →ISBN, page 307. From the entry woman
• I looked up to find an arc of almost-teens around me in Harry Potterish garb.2007 August 9–15, “The war on fun: “Family-friendly” is really a code word for “adult-hostile””, in See Magazine, number 715, page 7…. From the entry Harry Potterish
• Molded by Mattel in forest green, this action figure was garbed in a removable yellow, sleeveless shawl.2005, John Kenneth Muir, An Analytical Guide to Television’s Battlestar Galactica, page 187. From the entry removable
• The Rune Masters of the Teutons and Vikings wore startling garb that made them easily recognizable.1982, Ralph Blum, The Book of Runes, New York: St. Martin's Press, page 26. From the entry runemaster
• A small person in a long plain overall, almost childish, nunnishly garbed from throat to foot!1918, Mrs. Baillie Reynolds, The Lonely Stronghold, page 186. From the entry nunnishly
• The garb of a Doctor of Divinity, as you know, consisteth of a large cope with a liripoop.2016, “Anton Rubenstadt amicably and with hearty affection wisheth weal to Magister Ortwin Gratius”, in Ulrich Von Hutten, editor, Letters…. From the entry liripoop
• Almost all hijabis I encountered—except Intisar, Elizabeth, Sharmila, and Muna—were chic hijabis typically garbed in attractive, elegant, yet modest ensembles.2014, Shabana Mir, Muslim American Women on Campus: Undergraduate Social Life, →ISBN. From the entry hijabi
• Waiters are in button-downs, and waitresses wear full-on fraulein garb.2007 May 20, “A Coastline Smorgasbord”, in New York Times. From the entry fraulein
• In spite of the early hour, the Marquis of Chatham was finely garbed in black smallcoat and breeches of grey superfine.1987, Cate Brandt, Silken Chains, →ISBN, page 122. From the entry smallcoat
• She went into details over his garb and his accent.1970, Edna O’Brien, A Pagan Place: A Novel, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: Mariner Books, 2001, →ISBN…. From the entry gurrier
• Grosvenor then adopted a garb, or sheaf of corn.1968, Charles MacKinnon of Dunakin, The Observer's Book of Heraldry, pages 63–64. From the entry bend
• Arms : Argent, on a bend Gules, three garbs Or.1916, Mrs. Dorothy Lord (Maltby) Verrill, Maltby-Maltbie Family History, page 14. From the entry banded
• Dominic, in the garb of a Sangley.1907, Emma Helen Blair, The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, →ISBN, page 136. From the entry sangley
• Purple emperors are an exquisite morass of contradictions: disdainful of human company yet undisturbed by it; regally garbed yet partial to faecal feasts.2016, James Lowen, A Summer of British Wildlife, page 120. From the entry regally
• But there are many items that auctioneers sell every day in various garb: industrial equipment, autos and real estate, to name a few.2005 June 2, Jeanne Sahadi, “'Do I hear 6 figures? Sold!' Auctioneering can be a lucrative job ... if you know what you're selling.”, in…. From the entry auctioneer
• Will you let me go upstairs and change into something a little more vespertine?' He pointed mournfully at his speech day garb.2000, Stephen Fry, The Stars' Tennis Balls, page 34. From the entry vespertine
• For many, ’ardkore was a depressing manifestation of rave culture's nihilistic escapism, scantily garbed in the gladrags of a vague and poorly grounded idealism.1998, Simon Reynolds, Energy Flash, Soft Skull Press, published 2012, →ISBN, page 132. From the entry gladrags
• All day long and all night men tramped back and forth, Dostoyevskeian figures in rough garb—and slept there, rested and ate there, held services even.1920, The Nineteenth Century and After, volume 88, page 1102. From the entry Dostoyevskeian
• A mingled stream of comers and goers jostled each other along her gangplank, restless, excited people who spoke all tongues and wore all garbs.1918, Harris Dickson, Old Reliable in Africa, chapter 1. From the entry comers and goers
• The mountains were fully in their gorgeous autumn garb the next morning, as the train serpentined up and up toward the divide.1912, William B. Simmons, “The First Tripper”, in Hamilton Literary Magazine, volume 47, page 123. From the entry serpentine
• In adapting Joshua Reynolds's concept of the ‘historicizing portrait’, taking up Van Dyck or Oriental fashions and elevating all'antica garb to fashion, her portraits were considered particularly ‘fashionable’.2020, Bettina Baumgärtel, Angelica Kauffman, Munich: Hirmer, page 12. From the entry all'antica
• Often the Crane Dame and a few others like her were fangful, seemingly garbed in witches' outfits and spitting venom whenever I was in their presence.2006, Ernestine D. Harris, Dancing with Fireflies, page 122. From the entry fangful
• They were multiracial, knotted of brow, their garb was distinctive, involving a lot of what I later found out to be cheesecloth and kaftans along with ripped, faded denims.2003, Stuart Maconie, “Hocus Pocus”, in Cider with Roadies, London: Ebury Press, →ISBN, page 43. From the entry bloke
• Smetana's romantic comedy epitomizes one stereotype of Czechness: happy villagers in quaint peasant garb, dancing polkas and skocnas in the local pub while singing hymns in praise of beer.1999 May 2, Derek Katz, “MUSIC: Reading the Future in Readings of ‘Rusalka’”, in New York Times, retrieved 12 Dec 2009. From the entry Czechness
• The Spirals are part of the crossover between the rave scene and the ‘crusty’ subculture—crusties being squat-dwelling anarcho-hippy-punk types named after their matted dreadlocks and post-apocalyptic garb.1998, Simon Reynolds, Energy Flash, Soft Skull Press, published 2012, →ISBN, page 135. From the entry crusty
• The cerements still cling to their wasted frames, but will soon be exchanged for a gayer garb in their passage from the tomb to the temple.1921, Sir James George Frazer, Apollodorus: The Library (Loeb Classical Library), volume I, Introduction, § 1: “The Author and His Book”…. From the entry cerement
• I gaze in an awed way at those upon Broadway, Or Grand Street's assemblage of pearls, Those smartly garbed, natty, vivaciously chatty, Deliciously prettified, Silly or wittified, Patently citified Girls.1919, Life - Volume 74, Issue 2, page 1007. From the entry wittified

Meaning of garb

1. noun Fashion, style of dressing oneself up.
2. noun A type of dress or clothing.
3. noun A guise, external appearance.

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Questions about garb in a sentence

How do you use garb in a sentence?

Garb is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Between courses, the banqueters were entertained by minstrels in medieval garb.”

What is a short sentence with garb?

“Dominic, in the garb of a Sangley.”

What does garb mean?

Garb means fashion, style of dressing oneself up.