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- garb[garb 词源字典]
- garb: see gear
[garb etymology, garb origin, 英语词源] - garb (n.)
- "fashion of dress," 1620s, from earlier sense "person's outward demeanor" (c. 1600), originally "elegance, stylishness" (1590s), from Middle French garbe "graceful outline, gracefulness, comeliness" (Modern French galbe) or directly from Italian garbo "grace, elegance, pleasing manners, " which is from Old High German gar(a)wi "dress, equipment, preparation," or some other Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *garwi- "equipment; adornment" (see gear (n.)).
- garb (v.)
- "to dress, clothe, array," 1836, from garb (n.). Related: Garbed (1590s); garbing.