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garb

/ɡɑː(ɹ)b/ noun C2
  1. A wheatsheaf.
  2. A measure of arrows in the Middle Ages.

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Dantès himself was simply, but becomingly, clad in the dress peculiar to the merchant service—a costume somewhat between a military and a civil garb; and with his fine countenance, radiant with joy and happiness, a more perfect specimen of manly beauty could scarcely be imagined.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 23 · C1
Villefort’s dusty garb, his costume, which was not of courtly cut, excited the susceptibility of M.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 95 · C1
Eyes bright, sinister, curious, admiring, provocative, alluring were bent upon him, for his garb and air proclaimed him a devotee to the hour of solace and pleasure.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 27 · C1
His next care on leaving the barber’s who had achieved his first metamorphosis was to enter a shop and buy a complete sailor’s suit—a garb, as we all know, very simple, and consisting of white trousers, a striped shirt, and a cap.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 237 · C1

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