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garb

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
Related topics: Clothes & fashion
garb /ɡɑːb $ ɡɑːrb/ noun [uncountable]  formalDC a particular style of clothing, especially clothes that show your type of work or look unusual 〔尤指显示工作类型或样式特别的〕制服,服装,装束 priestly garb 牧师装束
Examples from the Corpus
garbThat is why, years later, he adopted the loincloth as his garb.The objective was to determine how well the improved garb will keep the astronauts warm.Objections have arisen to Catholic nuns teaching in religious garb.Most are wearing this strange garb with patterns that look somewhat like a zebra.green surgical garbEven if his beloved wife could speak to RoboCop, she would no longer recognize the man in all that garb.He was dressed in the garb of a Catholic priest and he bore an uncanny resemblance to the now legendary Spencer Tracy.He was dressed in the garb of a typical construct worker, so that anybody he passed would take him for such.The registered Republicans of Arizona responded to all those front page pictures of Pat Buchanan in western garb.
Origin garb (1500-1600) Early French garbe gracefulness, from Italian garbo
garb nounChinese
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garb
garb /ɡɑːb $ ɡɑːrb/ noun [uncountable]
 Date: 1500-1600
 Origin: Early French garbe 'gracefulness', from Italian garbo
formal a particular style of clothing, especially clothes that show your type of work or look unusual:
    priestly garb


garbBrE /ɡɑːb/ 🔊NAmE /ɡɑːrb/ 🔊 noun [uncountable] (formal or humorous) clothes, especially unusual clothes or those worn by a particular type of person (尤指某类人穿的特定)服装,衣服;奇装异服prison garb囚服