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- Dictionarygarb/ɡɑːb/
noun
- 1. clothing, especially of a distinctive or special kind: "kids in combat garb"
verb
- 1. dress in distinctive clothes: "she was garbed in Indian shawls"
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fashion, manner; a style of apparel; outward form : appearance… See the full definition
noun [ U ] fml us / ɡɑrb / Add to word list. clothes that are in a particular style: She was dressed in Roman garb for the play.
noun. 1. a fashion or mode of dress, esp. of a distinctive, uniform kind. in the garb of a monk. 2. wearing apparel; clothes. 3. outward appearance or form. transitive verb.
1. A distinctive style or form of clothing; dress: clerical garb. 2. An outward appearance; a guise: presented their radical ideas in the garb of moderation. To clothe; dress: was garbed in a long robe. [Obsolete French garbe, grace, from Italian garbo, from garbare, to please, of Germanic origin.]
noun [ U ] literary us / ɡɑːrb / uk / ɡɑːb / Add to word list Add to word list. clothes of a particular type: prison / clerical / military garb. Synonyms. attire formal. dress. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Clothing - general words. all-in-one. anti-fur. apparel. argyle. attire. furrier. garment. get up. glad rags. haberdasher.
There are three meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun garb. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion. synonyms: attire, dress. see more. the traditional dress of Vietnamese women consisting of a tunic with long sleeves and panels front and back; the tunic is worn over trousers. the attire characteristic of a country or a time or a social class.
Garb definition: a fashion or mode of dress, especially of a distinctive, uniform kind. See examples of GARB used in a sentence.
garb. noun. /ɡɑːb/. /ɡɑːrb/. [uncountable] (formal or humorous) clothes, especially unusual clothes or those worn by a particular type of person. prison garb. He was dressed in his full clerical garb. Some were in uniform, others in civilian garb.
Someone's garb is the clothes they are wearing, especially when these are unusual.
