Garnisht vs Tarnisht - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) (garnish)
To decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish.
* Spenser
(cooking) To ornament, as a dish, with something laid about it; as, a dish garnished with parsley.
To furnish; to supply.
(slang, archaic) To fit with fetters; to fetter
(legal) To warn by garnishment; to give notice to; to garnishee.
A set of dishes, often pewter, containing a dozen pieces of several types.
Pewter vessels in general.
* 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 4, p. 478:
Something added for embellishment; decoration; ornament; also, dress; garments, especially when showy or decorated.
* Shakespeare
* Prior
(cookery) Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment.
(slang, obsolete) Fetters.
(slang, historical) A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded from a newcomer by the older prisoners.
(obsolete) (tarnish)
Oxidation or discoloration, especially of a decorative metal exposed to air.
To oxidize or discolor due to oxidation.
To soil, sully, damage or compromise
(figurative) To lose its lustre or attraction; to become dull.
* Dryden
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between garnisht and tarnisht
is that garnisht is (obsolete) (garnish) while tarnisht is (obsolete) (tarnish).As verbs the difference between garnisht and tarnisht
is that garnisht is (obsolete) (garnish) while tarnisht is (obsolete) (tarnish).garnisht
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Verb
(head)garnish
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Verb
- All within with flowers was garnished .
- By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent. (Job 26:13, KJV)
- (Johnson)
Derived terms
* garnishee * garnishment * garnishorNoun
(garnishes)- The accounts of collegiate and monastic institutions give abundant entries of the price of pewter vessels, called also garnish .
- So are you, sweet, / Even in the lovely garnish of a boy.
- Matter and figure they produce; / For garnish this, and that for use.
- (Fielding)
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Verb
(head)tarnish
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Noun
(-)Verb
(es)- Careful storage of silver will prevent it from tarnishing .
- He is afraid that he will tarnish his reputation if he disagrees.
- Till thy fresh glories, which now shine so bright, / Grow stale and tarnish with our daily sight.