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fashion, manner; a style of apparel; outward form : appearance… See the full definition
Garb definition: a fashion or mode of dress, especially of a distinctive, uniform kind. See examples of GARB used in a sentence.
noun [ U ] fml us / ɡɑrb / Add to word list. clothes that are in a particular style: She was dressed in Roman garb for the play.
Your garb is what you are wearing — your clothing. You may choose the garb of an auto mechanic, even though you don’t know the difference between a carburetor and a catalytic converter, just because you like the look.
(Definition of garb from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press) garb | Intermediate English. noun [ U ] fml us / ɡɑrb / Add to word list Add to word list. clothes that are in a particular style:
5 days ago · Someone's garb is the clothes they are wearing, especially when these are unusual.
1. A distinctive style or form of clothing; dress: clerical garb. 2. An outward appearance; a guise: presented their radical ideas in the garb of moderation. tr.v. garbed, garb·ing, garbs. To clothe; dress: was garbed in a long robe.
Origin of Garb From Middle French garbe (“graceful outline”) (Modern French galbe), from Italian garbo (“grace, elegance”), perhaps from Germanic (compare Old High German garwi, garawi (“dress, equipment, preparation”) and English gear). From Wiktionary
noun. /ɡɑːb/. /ɡɑːrb/. [uncountable] (formal or humorous) clothes, especially unusual clothes or those worn by a particular type of person. prison garb. He was dressed in his full clerical garb. Some were in uniform, others in civilian garb. The actors were all in period garb.
Someone's garb is the clothes they are wearing, especially when these are unusual.
