Garnish

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EtymologyModificar

From Middle English garnischen < Old French garniss-, stem of certain parts of garnir, guarnir (“‘to avert, defend, warn, fortiy, garnish’”).

VerbModificar

1. To decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish; as, all within with flowers was garnished.
2. Patrono:Cooking To ornament, as a dish, with something laid about it; as, a dish garnished with parsley.
3. To furnish; to supply.

   By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent. (Job 26:13, KJV)

4. To fit with fetters.
5. (law) To warn by garnishment; to give notice to; to garnishee.

Derived termsModificar

• garnishee
• garnishment
• garnishor

Related termsModificar

• garrison
• garment

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NounModificar

1. a set of dishes, often pewter, containing a dozen pieces of several types.
2. pewter vessels in general.
   • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 478:

     The accounts of collegiate and monastic institutions give abundant entries of the price of pewter vessels, called also garnish.

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• Icelandic: skreyting f.

External linksModificar

• Garnish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• Garnish in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• Garnish at OneLook® Dictionary Search

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