(n.) The whole dress or suit of clothes worn by any person, especially when indicating rank or office; as, the garb of a clergyman or a judge.
(n.) Costume; fashion; as, the garb of a gentleman in the 16th century.
(n.) External appearance, as expressive of the feelings or character; looks; fashion or manner, as of speech.
(n.) A sheaf of grain (wheat, unless otherwise specified).
(v. t.) To clothe; array; deck.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mendl's candy colours contrast sharply with the gothic garb of our hero's enemies and the greys of the prison uniforms – as well as scenes showing the hotel later, in the 1960s, its opulence lost beneath a drab communist refurb.
(2) The vehicles were cleared for entry because those inside carried apparently legitimate US military identification cards, were dressed in proper American military garb and spoke perfect English.
(3) Identifiable by his distinctive hybrid of western and military garb, including a camouflage cowboy hat, jacket and boot protectors.
(4) "In the garb of these vaccination campaigns, the US and its allies are running their spying networks in Fata which has brought death and destruction on them in the form of drone strikes," the leaflet said.
(5) Moving swiftly on, Dominic Hart reminds us of an even more painful experience, physically at least, suffered by Newcastle supporter Robert Nesbitt, who chose to have a large image of Andy Cole in full Magpies garb tattooed on to his right thigh ... two days before Cole left for Manchester United.
(6) Apparently so – but with social media in meltdown at the prospect of Peter Dutton’s black-garbed men accosting strangers and demanding their papers, the under-the-clocks press conference quickly descended into predictable chaos.
(7) He essayed this “ho, for the open seas!” garb apparently for fun, and finds himself thrust on to the world stage dressed as a clown.
(8) While his British garb and proclivity for pub drink might seem completely out of place in LA, Logan is finding himself through his club – ebbing and flowing (and effing and blinding) with their highs and lows, finding solace and patience in their triumphs and shortcomings: I’ve found this outlet for performing loyalty, perpetuating a legendary verbal history, defending something at times very blindly and feeling pride in something only slightly larger than myself, all the while feeling this great sense of brotherhood and immortality.
(9) On Tuesday, at his first appearance at the federal court where he was self-represented, he came dressed in a long white robe, describing it as “Islamic garb”.
(10) Both men were wearing religious garb at the time of shooting.
(11) Fantastic Four review - a dawdling indie drama dressed up in superhero garb Read more There was better news for The Gift , a psychological thriller starring Jason Bateman and Rebecca Hall which marks Australian actor Joel Edgerton’s debut as a director.
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bones, hair and traditional Yazidi garb at the site of a suspected mass grave near the town of Sinjar, Iraq.
(13) Everyone knows that Patrick Bateman, the narrator of Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho , obsessively details the items of designer garb that he and his yuppie acquaintances are wearing.
(14) Iran is a country that has been represented through the garb of its women for the past 30 years.
(15) Hamza wore simple blue prison garb and was unshackled during the court appearance.
(16) Other risk-reduction measures include the adoption of universal precautions against transmission of infectious disease; sharp-instrument precautions; the use of protective garb to prevent skin and mucous membrane contamination when blood or bloody body fluid may splash; the availability of stable, puncture-resistant disposal containers for sharp instruments; the exclusion of breakable glass syringes; and the accessibility of resuscitation equipment in all rooms in order to avoid direct mouth-to-mouth contact.
(17) Dr. LeRoy B. Garbe, radiologist, evaluates these findings in the cases presented.
(18) Bald, jovial, worldly, ferociously bright but genial towards those within the fractious Church of England who disagree with him, his favourite form of garb is jeans and T-shirt.
(19) During 1982 and 1983 college commencement ceremonies, a tally was made of students who displayed personal adornment in addition to their traditional academic garb.
(20) Entertainment Weekly’s new issue offers choice details on Adam Driver ’s Kylo Ren, while the web has also given us a (rather unofficial and likely to be removed quick-sharp by Disney) look at Mark Hamill’s Luke Skywalker in full Jedi garb.
Garbo
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Gay icon Greta Garbo was one of Sweden's most famous movie exports.
(2) Book and author quickly acquired a mystique, partly abetted by Salinger, who cultivated his obscurity to the point of mania, becoming as secretive and self-obsessed as Holden Caulfield, in the words of the New York Times , “the Garbo of letters”.
(3) Hollywood, England: The British Film Industry In The Sixties (1974) was particularly outstanding, and his biographies of Peter Sellers (1981) and Elizabeth Taylor (1990), and books on Greta Garbo (1980), Marlene Dietrich (1984), Bette Davis (1986), Joan Crawford (1983) and others were a model of their kind.
(4) By then, Salinger had become "the Garbo of letters", living a fiercely defended private life in rural New Hampshire, a town named Cornish.
(5) I used to pretend I was Louise Brooks or Greta Garbo in my bedroom,” she says mimicking her younger self.
(6) He didn't like being interrogated about them though; if I asked him about Greta Garbo [with whom he is said to have had an affair] , he went completely silent.
(7) If anything, there is a slight falling off in sustained comic writing when Boot gets to Ishmaelia; plot takes over as Waugh explains how William accidentally stumbles on his scoop, and the introduction of some love interest – in the form of the Garbo-esque young German woman Kätchen – is the one mis-step in the book.
(8) Garbo was a neighbour in Manhattan and was a creature of very regular habit.
(9) Many of the great icons of femininity were shaped or designed by gay men: Joan Crawford by William Haynes, Marlene Dietrich by Travis Banton, Greta Garbo by Adrian, Judy Garland by Roger Edens, Marilyn Monroe by Jack Cole.
(10) MI5 was never sure whether this threat was serious or not, but was adamant that she could not be allowed to leave the country for fear that she would not only betray her husband, but the entire deception operation of which Garbo and his fabricated espionage network was just one element.
(11) Before that, there were several fiascos which culminated with Greta Garbo refusing to accept him as her leading man in Queen Christina.
(12) Juan Pujol García, a Spaniard who was working for MI5 under the codename Garbo, had tricked his German spymasters into believing he ran a network of agents in Britain.
(13) I can't do it, sighed Mason; I'm set to play the male lead in La Duchesse de Langeais - which was to be the comeback picture for Greta Garbo.
(14) In her first new pictures for five years, Sherman, the face that launched a thousand gender-studies PhDs, has cast herself as the ageing Hollywood diva, channelling Gloria Swanson and Bette Davis and Greta Garbo.
(15) But we will have The Men, Zapata, On The Waterfront, The Fugitive Kind, The Chase, The Godfather, Last Tango ... it is enough, I suspect, for him to become as representative of cinema as Garbo, Chaplin and Mickey Mouse.
(16) Norman Fay, High Spen, Gateshead Yes, there are a number of movies I would love to see rediscovered, one of which is the film The Divine Woman , which was one of the silent movies of Greta Garbo, directed by Victor Sjöström, the man who before Ingmar Bergman was the greatest Swedish film director and who went on to play the professor in Bergman's Wild Strawberries .
(17) Sitting with Michael Munn, biographer to the stars, in a somewhat bleak pub near his home in Sudbury, Suffolk, I can't get out of my head that classic Pete 'n' Dud sketch in which the flat-capped Peter Cook reveals to Dudley Moore the problems he is having being harassed by the likes of "bloody Greta Garbo".
(18) His Heathcliff in that film was blazingly romantic enough even for Garbo, who was apparently amazed if only as a spectator.
(19) Many men attended her salons (André Gide, Jean Cocteau, Esra Pound, TS Eliot, F Scott Fitzgerald, Rainer Maria Rilke, Rabindranath Tagore) but the real glory of her guest list was its women: Colette, Mata Hari, Isadora Duncan, Nancy Cunard, Greta Garbo, Peggy Guggenheim, Edna St Vincent Millay, Janet Flanner, Françoise Sagan.
(20) It also included the last ever appearance of Greta Garbo on film.