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Definition of Garbs
1. garb [v] - See also: garb
Lexicographical Neighbors of Garbs
Literary usage of Garbs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great by John Woody Papworth (1874)
"Ga. three garbs in pale or on a chief of the second as many garbs of the nrst.
... Sa. three garbs or on a chief arg. a talbot'g head erased betw. two ..."
2. An Ordinary of Arms Contained in the Public Register of All Arms and by James Balfour Paul (1893)
"garbs (2). Az. two garbs in chief and a crescent in base or (2nd and 3rd ... Az.
three garbs or (ist and 4th quarters); over all on an escutcheon the arms ..."
3. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.: Secretary to the by Samuel Pepys, Richard Griffin Braybrooke (1855)
"... garbs, with coats and doublets with deep skirts, just, for all the world, like
mine; and buttoned their doublets up the breast, ..."
4. Woman: In All Ages and in All Countries by Edward Bagby Pollard, Mitchell Carroll, Alfred Brittain, Pierce Butler, John Robert Effinger, Hugo Paul Thieme, Hermann Schoenfeld, Bartlett Burleigh James, John Ruse Larus (1908)
"... put to flight The death-denouncing phantoms of the night; And I nine times,
in linen garbs arrayed, In silent night, nine times to Trivia prayed. ..."
5. The Lusiad: Or, The Discovery of India: an Epic Poem by Luís de Camões, William Julius Mickle (1809)
"Sailors and land-men marshall'd o'er the strand, In garbs of various hue around
me stand, Each earnest first to plight the sacred vow, Oceans unknown and ..."
6. A Concordance to the Works of Alexander Popeby Edwin Abbott by Edwin Abbott (1875)
"... garbs with country, town, and c. EC, 323 An honest C, yet a Patriot too £>.
ii. .... garbs ..."
7. An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great by John Woody Papworth (1874)
"Ga. three garbs in pale or on a chief of the second as many garbs of the nrst.
... Sa. three garbs or on a chief arg. a talbot'g head erased betw. two ..."
8. An Ordinary of Arms Contained in the Public Register of All Arms and by James Balfour Paul (1893)
"garbs (2). Az. two garbs in chief and a crescent in base or (2nd and 3rd ... Az.
three garbs or (ist and 4th quarters); over all on an escutcheon the arms ..."
9. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.: Secretary to the by Samuel Pepys, Richard Griffin Braybrooke (1855)
"... garbs, with coats and doublets with deep skirts, just, for all the world, like
mine; and buttoned their doublets up the breast, ..."
10. Woman: In All Ages and in All Countries by Edward Bagby Pollard, Mitchell Carroll, Alfred Brittain, Pierce Butler, John Robert Effinger, Hugo Paul Thieme, Hermann Schoenfeld, Bartlett Burleigh James, John Ruse Larus (1908)
"... put to flight The death-denouncing phantoms of the night; And I nine times,
in linen garbs arrayed, In silent night, nine times to Trivia prayed. ..."
11. The Lusiad: Or, The Discovery of India: an Epic Poem by Luís de Camões, William Julius Mickle (1809)
"Sailors and land-men marshall'd o'er the strand, In garbs of various hue around
me stand, Each earnest first to plight the sacred vow, Oceans unknown and ..."
12. A Concordance to the Works of Alexander Popeby Edwin Abbott by Edwin Abbott (1875)
"... garbs with country, town, and c. EC, 323 An honest C, yet a Patriot too £>.
ii. .... garbs ..."
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