garbed

garb

 (gärb)

n.

1. A distinctive style or form of clothing; dress: clerical garb.

2. An outward appearance; a guise: presented their radical ideas in the garb of moderation.

tr.v. garbed, garb·ing, garbs

To clothe; dress: was garbed in a long robe.

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[Obsolete French garbe, grace, from Italian garbo, from garbare, to please, of Germanic origin.]

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Adj.

1.

garbed - dressed or clothed especially in fine attire; often used in combination; "the elegantly attired gentleman"; "neatly dressed workers"; "monks garbed in hooded robes"; "went about oddly garmented"; "professors robed in crimson"; "tuxedo-attired gentlemen"; "crimson-robed Harvard professors" appareled, attired, dressed, garmented, habilimented, robed clad, clothed - wearing or provided with clothing; sometimes used in combination; "clothed and in his right mind"- Bible; "proud of her well-clothed family"; "nurses clad in white"; "white-clad nurses"

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