garb

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Fashion, style of dressing oneself up. countable,uncountable
  2. A wheatsheaf.
  3. A type of dress or clothing. countable,uncountable
    — This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.[…]Indeed, all his features were in large mold, like the man himself, as though he had come from a day when skin garments made the proper garb of men.
  4. A measure of arrows in the Middle Ages.
    — Yorkshire supplied 500 bows, and 580 garbs of arrows, 360 of which had iron heads pointed with steel.
  5. A guise, external appearance. countable,figuratively,uncountable
    — You thought, because he could not speak English in the native garb, he could not therefore handle an English cudgel.
动词 v.
  1. To dress in garb. transitive

词形变化

garbs plural garbs present,singular,third-person garbing participle,present garbed participle,past garbed past garbs plural

词汇关系

衍生词
garbless nature's garb

词源

词源 1
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”).
词源 2
From Middle English garbe, from Old French garbe, variant of jarbe; akin to German Garbe. Doublet of gerbe.
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