Definition of Garb

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Definition of Garb

Garb

Clothing in general.

The whole dress or suit of clothes worn by any person, especially when indicating rank or office; as, the garb of a clergyman or a judge.

Costume; fashion; as, the garb of a gentleman in the 16th century.

External appearance, as expressive of the feelings or character; looks; fashion or manner, as of speech.

A sheaf of grain (wheat, unless otherwise specified).

To clothe; array; deck.

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Garb Quotations

There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.
Titus Livius

Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
Adam Clarke

The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness.
Edwin Booth

Garb Translations

garb in German is Gewand, Tracht
garb in Latin is induviae

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