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Garbed

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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 cover with or as if with clothing; dress.
[Obsolete French garbe, grace, from Italian garbo, from garbare, to please, of Germanic origin.]
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Adj.1.Garbedgarbed - 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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Later, Sola, with the aid of several of the other women, remodeled the trappings to fit my lesser proportions, and after they completed the work I went about garbed in all the panoply of war.
A Princess of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
To elude this one would not be difficult; but to enter the village and search it would be practically impossible, garbed, or un-garbed, as he was.
Tarzan the Untamed by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
It was an old man that made his way alone through the gloomy jungle, a wrinkled, dried up, little old man hideously scarred and tattooed and strangely garbed, with the skin of a hyena about his shoulders and the dried head mounted upon his grey pate.
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
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