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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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pretence
English
Alternative forms
- pretense (American spelling)
- prætence (archaic)
Etymology
From Middle French pretensse, from Late Latin praet?nsus (past participle of praetend? (“to pretend”), from prae- (“before”) + tend? (“to stretch”)).
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?p?i?t?ns/
- (UK) IPA(key): /p???t?ns/
- Rhymes: -?ns
- Hyphenation: pre?tence
Noun
pretence (countable and uncountable, plural pretences)
- (British spelling) An act of pretending or pretension; a false claim or pretext.
- 1995, Charlie Lewis, Peter Mitchell, Children?s Early Understanding Of Mind: Origins And Development, p.281,
- In pilot work we have used the method described in Experiment 2 on children?s memory for the content of their own false beliefs and pretence and asked them to differentiate between belief and pretence.
- 2005, Plato, Lesley Brown (translator), Sophist, 231b.
- That part of education that turned up in the latest phase of our argument, the cross-examination of the empty pretence of wisdom, is none other, we must declare, than the true-blooded kind of sophistry.
- 1995, Charlie Lewis, Peter Mitchell, Children?s Early Understanding Of Mind: Origins And Development, p.281,
- Something asserted or alleged on slight evidence; an unwarranted assumption.
- (obsolete) Intention; design.
Translations
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