Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗verb
To dress in garb.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryFashion, style of dressing oneself up. · A type of dress or clothing. · A guise, external appearance.
From Middle French garbe ("graceful outline, silhouette"; > Modern French galbe), from Italian garbo (“grace, elegance”), from Germanic (compare Old High German garwi, garawi (“dress, equipment, preparation”), Middle High German gerwe (“outfitting, jewelry, clothing, robe, regalia”), modern German Gärbe, Gerbe and English gear), ultimately from Frankish *garwijan (“to prepare”), from Proto-Germanic *garwijaną (“to prepare”).
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