GARBED

appareled, attired, dressed, garbed, garmented, habilimented, robed

(adjective) dressed or clothed especially in fine attire; often used in combination; “the elegantly attired gentleman”; “neatly dressed workers”; “monks garbed in hooded robes”; “went about oddly garmented”; “professors robed in crimson”; “tuxedo-attired gentlemen”; “crimson-robed Harvard professors”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

garbed

simple past tense and past participle of garb

Anagrams

• Badger, badger, barged

Source: Wiktionary


Garbed, a.

Definition: Dressed; habited; clad.

GARB

Garb, n. Etym: [OF. garbe looks, countenance, grace, ornament, fr. OHG. garawi, garwi, ornament, dress. akin to E. gear. See Gear, n.]

1. (a) Clothing in general. (b) The whole dress or suit of clothes worn by any person, especially when indicating rank or office; as, the garb of a clergyman or a judge. (c) Costume; fashion; as, the garb of a gentleman in the 16th century.

2. External appearance, as expressive of the feelings or character; looks; fashion or manner, as of speech. You thought, because he could not speak English in the native garb, he could not therefore handle an English cudgel. Shak.

Garb, n. Etym: [F. gerbe, OF. also garbe, OHG. garba, G. garbe; cf. Skr. grbh to seize, E. grab.] (Her.)

Definition: A sheaf of grain (wheat, unless otherwise specified).

Garb, v. t.

Definition: To clothe; array; deck. These black dog-Dons Garb themselves bravely. Tennyson.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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