garnish UK /ˈɡɑːnɪʃ/US /ˈɡɑɹnɪʃ/noun 8verb 6forms 4 noun8 •Something added for embellishment.First Poets, all the World agrees, Write half to profit, half to please Matter and figure They produce; For Garnish This, and That for Use — 1718 •Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment. •(slang, historical) A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded from a newcomer by the older prisoners.Garnish money, what is customarily spent among the Prisoners at first coming in. — 1699 •Clothes; garments, especially when showy or decorative.So are you, sweet, Even in the lovely garnish of a boy. — 1596 •(US, slang) Cash. •A set of dishes, often pewter, containing a dozen pieces of several types. •Pewter vessels in general.The accounts of collegiate and monastic institutions give abundant entries of the price of pewter vessels, called also garnish. — 1882 •(slang, no longer used) Fetters. verb6 •To decorate with ornaments; to adorn; to embellish.And all within with flowres was garnished, — 1590 •To ornament with something placed around it.a dish garnished with a sprig/spray of parsley •To have (money) set aside by court order (particularly for the payment of alleged debts); to garnishee. •To warn by garnishment; to give notice to. •(no longer used) To furnish; to supply.By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent. — 1611 •(slang, no longer used) To fit with fetters; to fetter. formsgarnished · garnisht · garnishing · garnishes
