| 词汇 | garb |
| 释义 | garb noun[ U ] literaryuk /ɡɑːb/ us /ɡɑːrb/ clothes of a particular type: （某种特定式样的）服装，装束；制服 prison/clerical/military garb囚衣／教士服／军装 Synonyms attireformal dress Clothing - general words all-in-one anti-fur apparel argyle attire cast-offs finery fitter get up glad rags haberdasher haberdashery hand-me-down mothball shorty spirit wear street clothes structured suit your best bib and tuckeridiom garb | American Dictionarygarb noun[ U ] fmlus/ɡɑrb/ clothes that are in a particular style: She was dressed in Roman garb for the play. Examples of garbgarb Western garb, his coat draped over his arm, and relaxed on his walking cane, the subject is clearly confident in his surroundings. There the reform ideal was also dressed in market garb. Our analysis simply avoids clothing syntactic distinctions in semantic garb. The neat, form-fitting, relatively unadorned garb figured forth not sexlessness, but marriageability, and not classlessness, but respectability. Still, a religious democracy (albeit not a theocracy in democratic garb) is to be preferred. Inevitably, this switch from a more static traditional garb attracted the notice of their superiors. Numerous researchers have since shown that dressing it in thematic garb, that is, putting it in a social context, increases the percentage of logically correct answers. Servants often acquired clothing in this way, and as well as their working garb they were also given ornate dress for important household occasions such as weddings, births and funerals. These are old questions in new garbs, with the result that we are now facing a virtually inextricable conglomerate of interdisciplinary theories with context-dependent key notions for confusingly different concepts. In this new garb, its benefits accrued not so much to individuals as to the collectivity in the form of reduced crime rates, lower official corruption, and better governance. Even when the bell-like silhouette produced by the crinoline skirt was at its greatest width, the essence of the horsewoman's garb was a lean, understated, and almost masculine simplicity. Broad in scope and vague in content, the law of conspiracy was a tool, wrapped in public garb, easily available for the gain of private interests. Medora, in her warrior garb, is no usurper of masculine privilege but rather a worthy surrogate for the hero when he is temporarily removed from the action. Does he not accept that a redundancy is a redundancy however it may be cloaked and garbed by his statement? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Prisoners are now taken from one prison to another in ordinary clothes, not in prison garb. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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