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garb
/ɡɑː(ɹ)b/
noun 5verb 1
Collocations
3ADJ.
ceremonial, green, vegetal, white
VERB + GARB
dressed
PREP.
in
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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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 th
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You thought, because he could not speak English in the native garb, he could not therefore handle an English cudgel.
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Yorkshire supplied 500 bows, and 580 garbs of arrows, 360 of which had iron heads pointed with steel.
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Dressed in ceremonial garb, he began the ritual.
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He was dressed in a minister's garb.
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Rodrigo saw several other men in white garb.
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