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Her garb was rustic, and her cheek pale; but there was an air of dignity and beauty, that hardly permitted the sentiment of pity.

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 Meanings and Examples of GARB
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
garb
 n.  costume; dress
Classic Sentence:
1  Her garb was rustic, and her cheek pale; but there was an air of dignity and beauty, that hardly permitted the sentiment of pity.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
2  Yet she was meanly dressed, a coarse blue petticoat and a linen jacket being her only garb; her fair hair was plaited but not adorned: she looked patient yet sad.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
3  The child had a native grace which does not invariably co-exist with faultless beauty; its attire, however simple, always impressed the beholder as if it were the very garb that precisely became it best.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In VI. PEARL
4  The serf wore the customary garb of serving-men at that period, and long before, in the old hereditary halls of England.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In VII. THE GOVERNOR'S HALL
5  As the last touch to her mermaid's garb, Pearl took some eel-grass and imitated, as best she could, on her own bosom the decoration with which she was so familiar on her mother's.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XV. HESTER AND PEARL
6  As with these, so with the child; her garb was all of one idea with her nature.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XXI. THE NEW ENGLAND HOLIDAY
7  The post-chaise stopped; the driver rang the door-bell, and a gentleman alighted attired in travelling garb; but it was not Mr. Rochester; it was a tall, fashionable-looking man, a stranger.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
8  I was glad to accept her hospitality; and I submitted to be relieved of my travelling garb just as passively as I used to let her undress me when a child.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
9  By the fire stood a ruffianly child, strong in limb and dirty in garb, with a look of Catherine in his eyes and about his mouth.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
10  Luigi wore the very picturesque garb of the Roman peasant at holiday time.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 33. Roman Bandits.
11  Teresa was clothed from head to foot in the garb of the Count of San-Felice's daughter.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 33. Roman Bandits.
12  So he doffed his prison garb, and put on his old fertilizer clothing, and heard the door of the prison clang behind him.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
13  Wives, again, put on weeds for their husbands, as if, so far from grieving in the garb of sorrow, they had made up their minds to render it as becoming and attractive as possible.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
14  Cosette had been obliged, on becoming a scholar in the convent, to don the garb of the pupils of the house.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED
15  Around the tents, over more than five acres, bloodstained men in various garbs stood, sat, or lay.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXXVI
Example Sentence:
1  Hard-working even by the standards of big name chief executives, he claimed that his customary garb of a crumpled black sweater saved him wasting time choosing a suit.