garb /ɡɑː(ɹ)b/noun 5verb 1forms 3 noun5 •Fashion, style of dressing oneself up. •A type of dress or clothing. •(figurative) A guise, external appearance.You thought, because he could not speak English in the native garb, he could not therefore handle an English cudgel. — 1599 •A wheatsheaf. •A measure of arrows in the Middle Ages.Yorkshire supplied 500 bows, and 580 garbs of arrows, 360 of which had iron heads pointed with steel. — 1957 verb1 •To dress in garb. formsgarbed · garbing · garbs