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garb

/ɡɑː(ɹ)b/ verb C2
  1. To dress in garb. (transitive)

He/she/it garbs · Past garbed · Past participle garbed · -ing form garbing

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Verb forms

Base form
garb
He/she/it
garbs
Past
garbed
Past participle
garbed
-ing form
garbing

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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
Matthew was not looking at her and would not have seen what she was really like if he had been, but an ordinary observer would have seen this: A child of about eleven, garbed in a very short, very tight, very ugly dress of yellowish-gray wincey.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 13 · 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

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