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GARBED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does garbed mean?
• GARBED (adjective)
The adjective GARBED has 1 sense:
1. dressed or clothed especially in fine attire; often used in combination
Familiarity information: GARBED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Dressed or clothed especially in fine attire; often used in combination
Synonyms:
appareled; attired; dressed; garbed; garmented; habilimented; robed
Context example:
crimson-robed Harvard professors
Similar:
clad; clothed (wearing or provided with clothing; sometimes used in combination)
Context examples
There was lay-sister Agatha with the high gold crucifix, and the three incense-bearers, and the two-and-twenty garbed in white, who cast flowers upon either side of them and sang sweetly the while.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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