garbed
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7.4
- adjective
- /ɡɑrbd/
- Literature
:
vestido
- Absentminded professors spill latte on youthful high-tech millionaires; black-garbed students read their way into the new public sphere.
Examples
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Harry was allowed to wear his ceremonial garb, his uniform during the vigil of the grandchildren.
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Greta Garbo is merely a carelessly garbed, athletic Swedish girl who stops to stare, fascinated, into the ten-cent store window (Calhoun 53).
Academic text (2016) -
Where is their religiously garbed violence?
Academic text (2009) -
The priest's words had been the same; the collection of mourners was similarly garbed and solemn.
Fiction book (1997) -
The students were all garbed in matching uniforms for the school event.
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The actors were garbed in elaborate costumes for the historical play.
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She entered the gala, garbed in a stunning evening gown that captured everyone's attention.
Synonyms
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2.7
Wearing special formal clothes for a party or event
28
6.5
Wearing clothes of a certain kind
1
5.4
Wearing special or formal clothes
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1.0
Wearing special clothes for an occasion, for example a party
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1.0
Wearing clothes to cover the body
1
6.3
Dressed in smart, formal clothes for a special event
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3.5
Wearing clothes made for a certain job or event
1
4.1
Wearing special clothes to act as someone else or to look like people from another time
To be dressed in fine or special clothes
Wearing fine clothes for a special event
Wearing fine or special clothes
Dressed or decorated for a special event
Wearing smart clothes for a special event
Wearing smart or fancy clothes
To wear nice clothes for a special event
How Formal
- Formal
60
5.7
1
3.5
- Literature
1
7.4
1
1.0
81
1.3
5
4.2
- NSFW
982
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Garbed comes from garb, which in Old French once meant a 'bundle' or 'package' and later came to mean the clothes you wrap around yourself, much like a garment. So, to be garbed is to be 'dressed' in a particular style.