Garnish

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Verb 1.3 Noun

English

Etymology

From Middle English, From Middle French garniss.

Verb

garnish (garnishes, garnished, garnishing)

1. To decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish; as, all within with flowers was garnished.
2. (Cookery) To ornament, as a dish, with something laid about it; as, a dish garnished with parsley.
3. To furnish; to supply.
4. To fit with fetters.
5. (Law) To warn by garnishment; to give notice to; to garnishee.

Noun

garnish

1. a set of dishes, often pewter, containing a dozen pieces of several types.
2. pewter vessels in general.

   Quotations

   • 1882: The accounts of collegiate and monastic institutions give abundant entries of the price of pewter vessels, called also garnish. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 478.

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