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garb

noun
/ɡɑː(ɹ)b/

Etymology

From Middle French garbe ("graceful outline, silhouette"; > Modern French galbe), from Italian garbo (“grace, elegance”), from Germanic (compare Old High German garwi, garawi (“dress, equipment, preparation”), Middle High German gerwe (“outfitting, jewelry, clothing, robe, regalia”), modern German Gärbe, Gerbe and English gear), ultimately from Frankish *garwijan (“to prepare”), from Proto-Germanic *garwijaną (“to prepare”).

  1. derived from *garwijaną✻
  2. derived from *garwijan✻
  3. derived from garbo — “grace, elegance”
  4. borrowed from garbe

Definitions

  1. Fashion, style of dressing oneself up.

  2. A type of dress or clothing.

    • 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.

  3. A guise, external appearance.

    • You thought, because he could not speak English in the native garb, he could not therefore handle an English cudgel.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. To dress in garb.

    2. A wheatsheaf.

    3. A measure of arrows in the Middle Ages.

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

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at garb. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at garb. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at garb

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA