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Garb
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Part of speech: noun (n.)
1. Clothing in general.
2. 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.
3. Costume; fashion; as, the garb of a gentleman in the 16th century.
4. External appearance, as expressive of the feelings or character; looks; fashion or manner, as of speech. You thought, because he could not speak English in the native garb, he could not therefore handle an English cudgel. Shak.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3
Part of speech: noun (n.)
A sheaf of grain (wheat, unless otherwise specified).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3
Part of speech: verb (v.)
To clothe; array; deck. These black dog-Dons Garb themselves bravely. Tennyson.