garb

garb (someone) in (something)

To dress someone in something in particular. On behalf of all your bridesmaids, you better not garb us in anything hideous for your wedding. It was pouring rain, so I garbed the kids in their raincoats and galoshes.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

garb someone in something

to dress someone in something. He hoped that someday he wouldn't have to garb his children in rags. She garbed herself in her finest clothes and got ready to meet her husband's family.
See also: garb
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • garb (someone) in (something)
  • garb in
  • come to (one's) senses
  • come to one's senses
  • come to senses
  • come to your senses
  • go to the expense
  • hot ticket
  • at one with (someone or something)
  • fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down
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The data being collected by Garb and Binford and their colleagues have the potential to increase our understanding of the evolution of spider venom and contribute to the discovery of new medicines, anti-venoms and insecticides.
All inmates were being taken to Al Garb police station for interrogation on various cases.
The book's division is a bit stark, and a conclusion tying the two sections together might illustrate that the two conceptions of women overlapped, often within a single artist's body of work (as Garb does illustrate with the inclusion of Degas' highly individuated portrait of artist Mary Cassatt in the second section).
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The textile sector was the most affected by smuggled goods coming under the garb of Afghanistan Transit Trade Agreement of 1965.
from Salt Lake City as their accountants, with a clear project and plan to take Garb Oil & Power Corporation to NASDAQ within 3 years.
I have met with positive response to our ability to handle three metric tons per hour supported by the Garb full buyback agreement."
After 19 years with the airline, Garb was fired, allegedly after he filed a complaint with the South African labour department, and decided to speak out to the media about his previous work.
How did suburban-style home-ownership come to be seen as an American dream, Margaret Garb asks in this thoughtful, well-written, and important study of Chicagoans' ideas about housing at the turn of the twentieth century.
Showcasing Tamar Garb's continuing interest in representations of gender in nineteenth-century French visual culture, The Painted Face: Portraits of Women in France, 1814-1914, and The Body in Time: Figures of Femininity in Late Nineteenth-Century France, focus on well-known portraits, offering informative recapitulations of past scholarship while positing fresh connections between the works and their historical period.
In two lectures she delivered at the University of Kansas in 2005, Garb (art history, U.
Available gowning room furnishings include laminar flow storage cabinets, stainless steel benches, and garb and parts dispensers that help ensure organized, space-efficient garbing procedures.
LIKE IT OR NOT, RELIGIOUS garb and clerical dress are making a comeback.
(1) Under the FSIA, "foreign state[s are] presumptively immune from the jurisdiction of United States courts; unless a specified exception applies." (2) In Garb v.
If Pennsylvania has a prohibition against religious garb, that is ridiculous, but citizens there should be able to know for certain who they are dealing with.