garb
IPA: gˈɑrb
noun
- Fashion, style of dressing oneself up.
- A type of dress or clothing.
- (figurative) A guise, external appearance.
- (heraldry) A wheat sheaf.
- A measure of arrows in the Middle Ages.
verb
- (transitive) To dress in garb.
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Examples of "garb" in Sentences
- And that snow machine garb is also a killer if you have to get off and walk in it.
- The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims.
- I mean the religious garb is cool, cooler than the Pope's, but I was expecting more along the lines of world domination + virigin sacrifices …
- The description of Palin's garb is comical when mentioned in such close proximity to one of Palin's stage props/accessories, Trig. gl, Pittsburgh
- Traditionalists fear their regional garb is being obscured by tourists and designers appropriating cotton and even plastic versions of their beloved clothing.
- That really doesn't matter as to whether or not the above remarks qualify as prejudice -- assuming people might be terrorists because they are wearing "Muslim garb" is the textbook definition of prejudice.
- Mr. Hernandez's monochromatic costumes were 1950s-style, with the plain garb of the villagers contrasting with the cosmopolitan clothes of Neruda and his wife, Matilde, and Di Cosimo's natty, attention-getting white suit.
- The patriotic charm of pinup models posing in photos wearing sailor girl garb is not a new idea, but it has been embraced by a whole new generation of pinup models and photographers who are keeping the all American pinup sailor girl image alive.
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