garb
24
6.5
- noun
- /ɡɑrb/
:
vestimenta
- Beyond them stood a pair in funeral garb, doubtless the only finery they owned.
- wear garb
- dressed in garb
- traditional garb
You might guess by the garb, but we're doing prison food.
- You might guess by the garb, but we're doing prison food.
- You know, he's just taking ideas of other people and repackaging them in a Roman culture and Latin language garb.
- It's not enough to be a a particular profession just to call yourself that or to have other people call you that or to wear the garb of that.
- And when Rhett and I went, we waited in this line, signed up to come back and still waited in a line and we put on all of this garb.
- And then the Alex P Keating kind of garb started to to rear its head.
- I think a lot of people probably go headdresses full garb, but I don't know if that's reality.
- For good measure, Goya's interior spreads cartoon stain red into the black garb of sabotage.
- The earlier on before I started, you know, taking control over my own garb and, and look and stuff like that.
- Like there's a secret squirrel type mission set where we're growing out beards and wearing garbs and snatching dudes off the streets.
Examples
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The dancers wore colorful traditional garb during the performance.
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DECK OF THE TITANIC - Passengers in period garb walk past a lifesaver with "Titanic" stenciled above it.
Fiction book (1999) -
You might guess by the garb, but we're doing prison food.
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This was our king's royal garb.
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All were dressed in the same blue prison garb, with one notable exception.
Fiction book (1997) -
Yet here he is boppin' around in what is essentially the garb of a student.
Academic text (1997) -
She is dressed in traditional colonial garb...
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Priests began appearing in public with clerical garb, a practice forbidden by Article 130 of the 1917 Constitution.
Academic text (1999) -
Tall, thin, and angular, in black clerical garb, he looks like the grim reaper.
Fiction book (1995) -
I did not go to them as a monarch, but in peasant garb," Bastable declaimed triumphantly.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Things you wear to cover your body, like shirts and coats
530
1.0
Things you wear to cover your body
453
1.1
A set of clothes and accessories worn for a particular occasion
333
1.0
Clothes of a particular style or for a special occasion
57
3.8
Clothing for a particular purpose or event
51
4.3
Clothes for special or formal occasions, like a suit
47
3.0
Clothing style typical of a country, time period, or social group
7
9.1
People wear very special clothes and objects at ceremonies to show rank
3
3.6
Clothes for special events in the evening, like suits or long dresses
2
7.1
A set of clothes worn for a particular occasion
1
3.5
A dress, suit, or gown people wear for special occasions
1
3.6
Clothes that people in a culture wear for ceremonies or festivals
Antonyms
Compounds
How Formal
7
9.1
1
3.5
1
3.6
∞
1.7
24
6.5
11
1.6
8
1.8
Surface Forms
Etymology
Garb comes from an old French word meaning 'bundle' of cloth and reminds us of the familiar word garment, which also means clothing. So think of clothes as a 'bundle' you put on, and garb means a particular type or style of clothing.