garb
/ɡɑː(ɹ)b/ verb C2- To dress in garb.
He/she/it garbs · Past garbed · Past participle garbed · -ing form garbing
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.
Villefort’s dusty garb, his costume, which was not of courtly cut, excited the susceptibility of M.
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.
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.
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