Garnish

Definitions

1. A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
2. A set of dishes, often pewter, containing a dozen pieces of several types.
   countable, uncountable
3. Pewter vessels in general.
   countable, uncountable
4. Something added for embellishment.
   countable, uncountable
5. Clothes; garments, especially when showy or decorative.
   countable, uncountable
6. Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment.
   countable, uncountable
7. Fetters.
   countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable
8. A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded from a newcomer by the older prisoners.
   historical, slang, uncountable
9. Cash.
   US, countable, slang, uncountable

Equivalents

25 more languages

العربيةالزّينةزخرفزين

Bosanskišusукрас

Catalàguarnicióguarnir

Češtinaoblohaozdobit

Ελληνικάγαρνιτούρα

Suomigarnityyrikoristella

Gaeilgemaisigh

Galegogornecerguarnecerrepenico

Hrvatskišusукрас

Magyardekorációdíszdíszítdíszítésköret+ 2 more

Íslenskaskreyta

Italianoabbellireadornaredecorarefornireguarnireornare+ 3 more

日本語飣餖

ქართულიგარნირიუზრუნველყოფა

한국어고명

Kurdîsûs

Te Reo Māoriwhakarākei

Македонскигарниргарнираснабдиукрасукраси+ 2 more

Polskidekorowaćgarnirgarnirowaćgarnirowaniegarnirunekozdabiaćozdobićprzybranieszlarkaudekorować+ 7 more

Portuguêsabastecerfornecerguarnecerguarniçãoornamentarornarsuprir+ 4 more

Русскийгарниргарни́роватьснабдитьснабжатьукраситьукрашатьукрашение+ 4 more

Српскиšusукрас

Svenskagarnera

Türkçesüs

Українськагарнірпокраса

Examples

“The accounts of collegiate and monastic institutions give⟳ abundant entries of the price of pewter vessels, called also garnish.”

“1718, Matthew Prior, Alma: or, The Progress⟳ of the Mind⟳, Canto 1, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: Jacob Tonson, p. 333, First Poets, all the World agrees, Write⟳ half to profit, half to please⟳ Matter⟳ and figure⟳ They produce⟳; For Garnish This, and That for Use⟳;”

“This hard-headed old Overreach approved of the sentimental song, as the suitable garnish for girls, and also as fundamentally fine, sentiment being the right thing for a song.”

“There had been a semblance of chivalry in the attitude from which, at the beginning of their marriage, he had briefly regarded her; but forty-seven years had efficiently disposed of that garnish of politeness.”

“So are you, sweet, Even in the lovely garnish of a boy.”

“1699, B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, London: W. Hawes et al., Garnish money, what is customarily spent among the Prisoners at first coming in.”

“This person then […] acquainted him that it was the custom of the place⟳ for every prisoner, upon his first arrival there, to give⟳ something to the former prisoners to make⟳ them drink⟳. This, he said, was what they called garnish; and concluded with advising his new customer to draw⟳ his purse upon the present⟳ occasion.”

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