Noun

(en noun)

Fashion, style of dressing oneself up.

A type of dress or clothing.

*

*: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.

(lb) A guise, external appearance.

*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

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

Noun

(en noun)

(heraldiccharge) A wheat sheaf.

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.''

Noun

(head)

(plural only) Items of clothing; apparel.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=6 citation , passage=Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.}}

(obsolete) .

The covering of a bed; bedclothes.

* Prior

She turned each way her frighted head, / Then sunk it deep beneath the clothes .