• IPA: /ɡɑː(ɹ)b/

From Middle French garbe , from Italian garbo, from Germanic - (compare Old High German garwi, garawi, Middle High German gerwe, modern German Gärbe, Gerbe and English gear), ultimately from Frankish *garwijan, from Proto-Germanic *garwijaną.

garb

1. Fashion, style of dressing oneself up. [from late 16^thc.]
2. A type of dress or clothing. [from early 17^thc.]
   • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC ↗:

     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.

3. (figurative) A guise, external appearance.
   • 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act V, scene i]:

     You thought, because he could not speak English in the native garb, he could not therefore handle an English cudgel.

• Portuguese: traje
• Russian: оде́жда

garb (garbs, present participle garbing; simple past and past participle garbed)

1. (transitive) To dress in garb.

From French gerbe; akin to German Garbe.

garb (plural garbs)

1. (heraldiccharge) A wheatsheaf.
2. 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.

• French: gerbe
• Italian: covone
• Spanish: gavilla