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[a. F. garniture (f. garnir vb.), which occurs in most of the senses of the Eng. word.]
1. a. Furniture, outfit, appurtenances.
1532G. Hervet Xenophon's Househ. (1768) 38 Pannes, caudrons, and other garnitures of the kitchen. 1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong s.v., La garniture d'vn lict, d'vne espée, ou quelque chose, the garniture or furniture of a bed, sword, or any other thing. 1854Mrs. Oliphant Magd. Hepburn III. 295 The table sparkles with silver cups and antique wealth of garniture. 1878Schiller Technol. Dict. s.v., Garniture of a boiler, all apparatuses which serve for the safety of a boiler, all steam-pipes, stoking-tools, etc.).
b. Trappings, harness (of horses, etc.). ? Obs.
1670G. H. Hist. Cardinals i. iii. 77 The garniture of the Mules are but ordinary. 1821Scott Kenilw. xxiv, A palfrey, with a side-saddle and all other garniture for a woman's mounting.
c. garniture de cheminée (see quot. 1960).
1900F. Litchfield Pott. & Porc. iv. 39 The famous Sèvres garnitures de cheminées. 1960R. G. Haggar Conc. Encycl. Cont. Pott. & Porc. 203/2 Garniture de cheminée, a set of five vases, three baluster-shaped with covers, and two beakers with trumpet-shaped apertures called ‘flutes’, decorated en suite.
2. Ornament, trimming, etc., added to dress.
1667Dryden Maiden Queen v. i. A man of garniture and feather is above the dispensation of the sword. 1684J. Lacy Sir H. Buffoon ii. ii, My French garniture, a pox on 'em, is not yet arrived from Paris. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Garniture, the trimming of a Suit with Ribbons, precious Stones, &c. as a Garniture of Diamonds. 1710Steele Tatler No. 116 ⁋7 Stomachers, Caps, Facings of my Wastcoat-Sleeves, and other Garnitures suitable to my Age and Quality. 1753Hanway Trav. (1762) I. vii. xcv. 437 A garniture of saphirs, as buttons, sword, star, watch, snuff-box, &c. 1840Dickens Old C. Shop xxviii, A military surtout..which had once been frogged and braided all over, but was now sadly shorn of its garniture. 1897Globe 18 Feb. 6/3 At the wrists the sleeves..are finished with a two-inch garniture of violets.
3. a. Ornament, embellishment generally.
1685Crowne Sir C. Nice 111, I bestow some garniture on plays, as a song or a prologue. 1713Derham Phys. Theol. iv. xii. 214 The suitableness of Animals Clothing; and Garniture and Beauty thereof. a1716South Serm. III. 131 Where real Kindnesses are done, the circumstantial Garnitures of Love (as I may so call them) may be dispensed with. 1762Foote Lyar i. Wks. 1799 I. 283 A man is naturally permitted more ornament and garniture to his conversation than they will allow in this latitude. 1821Lamb Elia Ser. i. Mackery End, She happily missed all that train of female garniture which passeth by the name of accomplishments. 1878Morley Carlyle in Crit. Misc. 178 No verbal garniture of a transcendental kind.
b. Applied to natural objects (as trees, etc.) as ornaments of the landscape.
1684T. Burnet Th. Earth ii. 80 This destroying of the outward garniture of the earth is but the first onset. 1768Beattie Minstr. i. ix, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields. 1809W. Irving Knickerb. (1861) 56 To their right lay the sedgy point of Blackwell's Island, drest in the fresh garniture of living green. 1863Mrs. C. Clarke Shaks. Char. ii. 60 The pomp and garniture of God's creation—the green fields and the forest glades.
4. Apparel, costume, dress.
1827Pollok Course T. vii, Gloomy garniture of purchased woe. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xl. (1856) 365, I have never before alluded to the garniture of my outer man.
5. Trimming or dressing of a dish. Also fig.
1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Sturgeon, It may be..set out with a Marinade, or other Garniture. 1761Wesley Wks. (1872) XIII. 393 This means nothing; it is mere garniture of the dish. 1862Goulburn Pers. Relig. i. (1873) 5 If he has skilfully dressed a rather spare dish of knowledge with the garniture of amusement. 1888Frith Autobiog. III. 134 A huge boar's head, with the usual garniture, was placed upon the table. |