Definition/Meaning of garnish

• English - Verb: garnish ( third-person singular simple present garnishes , present participle garnishing , simple past and past participle garnished ) To decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish . Spenser All within with flowers was garnished . ( cooking ) To ornament , as a dish , with something laid about it; as , a dish garnished with parsley . To furnish; to supply . By his…
• English - Noun: garnish ( plural garnishes ) A set of dishes , often pewter , containing a dozen pieces of several types . 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 . Something added for…
• English - External links: 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
• English - Etymology: From Middle English garnischen , from Old French garniss- , stem of certain forms of the verb garnir , guarnir , warnir ( “ to provide , furnish , avert , defend , warn , fortify , garnish ” ), from a conflation of Old Frankish *warnjan ( “ to refuse , deny ” ) and *warnōn ( “ warn , protect , prepare , beware , guard oneself ” ), from Proto-Germanic *warnijaną ( “ to worry , care , heed ” ) and…
• English - Anagrams: sharing