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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 combinationplay

  Familiarity information: GARBED used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


GARBED (adjective)


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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