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noun
Fashion, style of dressing oneself up.
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.
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
To dress in garb.
noun
A wheatsheaf.
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.