garb

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡɑː(ɹ)b/
  • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)b

Etymology 1

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), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *garwijaną (“to prepare”).

Noun

garb (countable and uncountable, plural garbs)

  1. Fashion, style of dressing oneself up. [from late 16thc.]
  2. A type of dress or clothing. [from early 17thc.]
    • 1915, Emerson Hough, The Purchase Price, chapterI:
      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. (figuratively) 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.
Translations

Verb

garb (third-person singular simple present garbs, present participle garbing, simple past and past participle garbed)

  1. (transitive) To dress in garb.
Translations

Etymology 2

French gerbe; akin to German Garbe

Noun

garb (plural garbs)

  1. (heraldry) 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.
Translations
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Anagrams

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *gъrbъ, *gъrba

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡarp/
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Noun

garb m inan

  1. a hump (rounded fleshy mass)
  2. a hump (deformity of the human back)

Declension

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