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garb
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???(?)b/
- Rhymes: -??(?)b
Etymology 1
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), ultimately from Frankish *garwijan (“to prepare”), from Proto-Germanic *garwijan? (“to prepare”).
Noun
garb (countable and uncountable, plural garbs)
- Fashion, style of dressing oneself up. [from late 16thc.]
- A type of dress or clothing. [from early 17thc.]
- 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.
- (figuratively) A guise, external appearance.
Translations
Verb
garb (third-person singular simple present garbs, present participle garbing, simple past and past participle garbed)
- (transitive) To dress in garb.
Translations
Etymology 2
French gerbe; akin to German Garbe. Doublet of gerbe.
Noun
garb (plural garbs)
- (heraldry) A wheat sheaf.
- A measure of arrows in the Middle Ages.
- 1957, H. R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, page 118.
- Yorkshire supplied 500 bows, and 580 garbs of arrows, 360 of which had iron heads pointed with steel.
- 1957, H. R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, page 118.
Translations
Anagrams
- ARGB, brag, grab
Polish
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *g?rb?, *g?rba
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?arp/
Noun
garb m inan
- a hump (rounded fleshy mass)
- a hump (deformity of the human back)
Declension
Related terms
- garbaty
- garbus
- garbi? si?
Further reading
- garb in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- garb in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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disguise
English
Etymology
From Middle English disgisen, disguisen, borrowed from Old French desguiser (modern French déguiser), itself derived from des- (“dis-”) (from Latin dis-) + guise (“guise”) (from a Germanic source).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d?s??a?z/, /d?z??a?z/
- (General American) IPA(key): /d?s??a?z/, /d??ska?z/
- Hyphenation: dis?guise
- Rhymes: -a?z
Noun
disguise (countable and uncountable, plural disguises)
- Material (such as clothing, makeup, a wig) used to alter one’s visual appearance in order to hide one's identity or assume another.
- A cape and moustache completed his disguise.
- (figuratively) The appearance of something on the outside which masks what's beneath.
- The act of disguising, notably as a ploy.
- Any disguise may expose soldiers to be deemed enemy spies.
- (archaic) A change of behaviour resulting from intoxication.
Synonyms
- camouflage
- guise
- mask
- pretense
Translations
Verb
disguise (third-person singular simple present disguises, present participle disguising, simple past and past participle disguised)
- (transitive) To change the appearance of (a person or thing) so as to hide, or to assume an identity.
- Spies often disguise themselves.
- (transitive) To avoid giving away or revealing (something secret); to hide by a false appearance.
- He disguised his true intentions.
- (archaic) To affect or change by liquor; to intoxicate.
- I have just left the right worshipful, and his myrmidons, about a sneaker or five gallons; the whole magistracy was pretty well disguised before I gave them the slip.
Synonyms
- camouflage
- cloak
- mask
- hide
Derived terms
- disguisedly
- disguisement
- disguiser
Translations
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