Noun decided to clothe himself in traditional Scottish garb for the celebration a fable about personal redemption presented in the garb of a conventional horror story Verb firefighters garbed in protective gear
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
Providing immediate assistance in military-style garb during an emergency is a recruiting tactic used by militias nationwide, and not confined to Mariposa County. Chiara Sottile, NBC News, 29 July 2022 Before the reading, Boston’s official Fourth of July parade looped through downtown, with participants including veterans and marchers in Colonial-era garb. Anjali Huynh, BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2022 Pack the sunscreen, grab your red, white and blue garb and get ready because this Fourth of July is going to be one of the busiest on record for vacationers.San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 June 2022 Afzal, who was born in Afghanistan and immigrated to Belgium from Kabul at four years old, chose to wear her traditional Afghan garb this year. Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 4 May 2022 The passerby who begs a few rubles is dressed here in sinister military garb—an allusion to the current war? Charles Isherwood, WSJ, 17 June 2022 Visitors can also shop for art (at Aquavella, Sothebys, and Pace Galleries) or garb (at Kirna Zabete, Hermès, La Ligne, Veronica Beard). Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 19 May 2022 Jocelyn’s portrait depicts Cinqué in Greco-Roman garb, a handsome and heroic figure seen half-bare-chested, clutching a staff.Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2022 The environment is not yoked to the dogma of the physical world, and virtual churches attract exceptionally diverse crowds—in exceptionally diverse garb—from across faiths and around the globe. Lila Maclellan, Quartz, 22 Dec. 2021
Verb
After about 15 minutes, the troopers separated and allowed the protesters to continue marching to a nearby street but were soon met by more law enforcement officers garbed in riot gear. P. Kim Bui, azcentral, 29 May 2020 At the time Stigler, the mild-mannered director of the MICU and a Birmingham native, spent long shifts garbed head-to-toe in protective gear, caring for critically ill patients and comforting family members by phone who were desperate for news. Anna Claire Vollers | Avollers@al.com, al, 2 May 2020 The heavily tattooed prisoners, garbed in boxer shorts, their shorn heads bowed, are pictured pressed together in precise formation only inches apart, as shotgun-wielding guards in full riot gear eye them ominously.Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2020 Teams were garbed in matching uniforms with their business names or sponsor logos. Jeff Forward, Houston Chronicle, 26 Sep. 2019 The architects brought in Hugo Ballin, a local artist who painted the murals at Griffith Observatory, to create tile murals above the front entrance depicting allegorical figures in Greco-Roman garb that symbolize Trust, Protection and Fidelity.Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2019 Crisp’s and Blair’s characters go down with the ship, while Hindley’s grabs a seat in a lifeboat garbed as a woman. Tom Titus, Daily Pilot, 12 Aug. 2019 Accordingly, the scientists are garbed in white onesies, gloves, booties and hairnets. Jordan Wilkerson, Dallas News, 9 July 2019 Markle turned heads while garbed in a $595 black Judith & Charles plunge neck-line tuxedo mini dress and matching pumps. Morgan M. Evans, Fox News, 31 Aug. 2018 See More
Word History
Etymology
Noun
borrowed from Middle French & Italian; Middle French garbe "graceful contour, grace," borrowed from Italian garbo "grace, charm, good manners, form, outline of a ship's hull made from wood pieces," of uncertain origin
Note: If the sense "outline of a ship's hull" is prior to the more abstract senses, the modern Italian word probably continues an earlier etymon represented by (alleged) medieval Genoese dialect garibu in the sense "model of a hull," itself ultimately a loan from Arabic qālib "mold, shoemaker's last" (see caliber); details of attestation are thus far incompletely documented, however. An earlier hypothesis connecting garbo (and the related verb garbare "to be becoming to, please") to Germanic *garwjan- "to prepare, make ready" (presumably via Gothic; see gear entry 1, yare) is questionable on semantic and phonetic grounds.