Definitions
provide with clothes or put clothes on
Word origin
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”).
Used in a sentence
“You thought, because he could not speak English in the native garb, he could not therefore handle an English cudgel.”
“Yorkshire supplied 500 bows, and 580 garbs of arrows, 360 of which had iron heads pointed with steel.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Distinctive clothing”4 letters
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