Garb

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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