garb的词源

英文词源

garb: garb: see gear
garb (n.): "fashion of dress," 1620s, from earlier sense "person's outward demeanor" (c. 1600), originally "elegance, stylishness" (1590s), from Middle French garbe "graceful outline, gracefulness, comeliness" (Modern French galbe) or directly from Italian garbo "grace, elegance, pleasing manners, " which is from Old High German gar(a)wi "dress, equipment, preparation," or some other Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *garwi- "equipment; adornment" (see gear (n.)).
garb (v.): "to dress, clothe, array," 1836, from garb (n.). Related: Garbed (1590s); garbing.

词源同gear, 装置，装备，引申义服装，衣服。

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