Examples of garb in a Sentence

Noun decided to clothe himself in traditional Scottish garb for the celebration a fable about personal redemption presented in the garb of a conventional horror story Verb firefighters garbed in protective gear

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun The email also included images of a fake chair with a hole cut in the seat like a toilet and a man dressed in Confederate garb. — Jay Reeves, Star Tribune, 2 June 2021 In the nearby Diamond District, where jewelry salesmen wear the distinctive black garb of ultra-Orthodox Jews, a woman was burned by fireworks thrown from the back of a pickup truck. — Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 31 May 2021 Sitting among the travelers is a group of men in camouflage, the garb that U.S. authorities say smugglers use to blend into the Texas terrain. — Dallas News, 8 May 2021 Rather than clad in their leafy garb, distant trees still seemed cloaked in a pale haze of tentative new buds. — Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2021 After a year of wearing extremely relaxed garb, the borders of casual clothing have never looked blurrier. — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 12 Apr. 2021 The email address later sent photos of someone wearing Confederate garb posing on a chair, that looked like the missing one, with a hole cut out. — Kim Chandler, Star Tribune, 9 Apr. 2021 The testing program was overseen by senior health officials who often sent staff — outfitted in full protective garb, including face shields and scrubs — to do in-home tests. — New York Times, 25 Mar. 2021 The young stars glow, Wiz bare-chested and draped in diamonds, Tems in slick braids and flowing garb. — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2021 Recent Examples on the Web: Verb After about 15 minutes, the troopers separated and allowed the protesters to continue marching to a nearby street but were soon met by more law enforcement officers garbed in riot gear. — P. Kim Bui, azcentral, 29 May 2020 At the time Stigler, the mild-mannered director of the MICU and a Birmingham native, spent long shifts garbed head-to-toe in protective gear, caring for critically ill patients and comforting family members by phone who were desperate for news. — Anna Claire Vollers | Avollers@al.com, al, 2 May 2020 The heavily tattooed prisoners, garbed in boxer shorts, their shorn heads bowed, are pictured pressed together in precise formation only inches apart, as shotgun-wielding guards in full riot gear eye them ominously. — Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2020 Teams were garbed in matching uniforms with their business names or sponsor logos. — Jeff Forward, Houston Chronicle, 26 Sep. 2019 The architects brought in Hugo Ballin, a local artist who painted the murals at Griffith Observatory, to create tile murals above the front entrance depicting allegorical figures in Greco-Roman garb that symbolize Trust, Protection and Fidelity. — Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2019 Crisp’s and Blair’s characters go down with the ship, while Hindley’s grabs a seat in a lifeboat garbed as a woman. — Tom Titus, Daily Pilot, 12 Aug. 2019 Accordingly, the scientists are garbed in white onesies, gloves, booties and hairnets. — Jordan Wilkerson, Dallas News, 9 July 2019 Markle turned heads while garbed in a $595 black Judith & Charles plunge neck-line tuxedo mini dress and matching pumps. — Morgan M. Evans, Fox News, 31 Aug. 2018

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History and Etymology for garb

Noun

borrowed from Middle French & Italian; Middle French garbe "graceful contour, grace," borrowed from Italian garbo "grace, charm, good manners, form, outline of a ship's hull made from wood pieces," of uncertain origin

Note: If the sense "outline of a ship's hull" is prior to the more abstract senses, the modern Italian word probably continues an earlier etymon represented by (alleged) medieval Genoese dialect garibu in the sense "model of a hull," itself ultimately a loan from Arabic qālib "mold, shoemaker's last" (see caliber); details of attestation are thus far incompletely documented, however. An earlier hypothesis connecting garbo (and the related verb garbare "to be becoming to, please") to Germanic *garwjan- "to prepare, make ready" (presumably via Gothic; see gear entry 1, yare) is questionable on semantic and phonetic grounds.

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