garb

UK /ɡɑː(ɹ)b/ US /ɡɑː(ɹ)b/
noun 5verb 1

Definitions

noun

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.

3

A guise, external appearance.

You thought, because he could not speak English in the native garb, he could not therefore handle an English cudgel.

verb

1

To dress in garb.

noun

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.

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