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词组 garb
释义 garb
      Some criticism has been directed at garb, essentially because it is seen as a needless synonym for more straightforward words, such as clothes and clothing. Garb continues in reputable use, however, both as a noun and as a verb, and its use should give you little concern. The noun in its literal sense most often denotes a highly distinctive outfit, and it is likely chosen over a more ordinary word because the clothes it describes are themselves out of the ordinary:
      ... the baroque, beaded beauty of ceremonial garb —S. K. Oberbeck, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 1973
      ... a man in priestly garb was selling medallions — Lawrence Van Gelder, N.Y. Times, 3 Oct. 1979
      ... got hold of some traditional Hasidic garb —John Gross, N.Y. Times Book Rev., 1 Apr. 1984
      The noun also has a common figurative use, in which it typically describes a deliberately deceptive outward appearance:
      ... cloak ordinary observations in a garb of specious profundity —Walter Kendrick, N.Y. Times Book Rev., 4 Sept 1983
      The verb garb occurs most often as a past participle. Like the noun, it has both literal and figurative uses:
      ... garbed impeccably but anachronistically in Forties evening dress —Bruce Cook, Saturday Rev., 1 Nov. 1975
      ... do not relish magnificent dishonesty garbed as gospel —Fred Rodell, Saturday Rev., 14 Mar. 1953
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