garb

Meanings

Noun

• Fashion, style of dressing oneself up.
• A type of dress or clothing.
• A guise, external appearance.
• A wheat sheaf.
• A measure of arrows in the Middle Ages.

Verb

• To dress in garb.

Origin

• From Middle French garbe (Modern French galbe), from Italian garbo, perhaps from Germanic (compare Old High German garwi, garawi and English gear), ultimately from Frankish *garwijan ("to prepare"), from Proto-Germanic *garwijaną ("to prepare").
• French gerbe; akin to German Garbe. gerbe.