Meaning of Garb | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Fashion, style of dressing oneself up.
   countable, uncountable
2. A wheatsheaf.
3. A type of dress or clothing.
   countable, uncountable
4. A measure of arrows in the Middle Ages.
5. A guise, external appearance.
   countable, figuratively, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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

“Yorkshire supplied 500 bows, and 580 garbs of arrows, 360 of which had iron heads pointed with steel.”

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