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garnish

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈɡɑɹnɪʃ/

Noun

obsolete slang historical US

A set of dishes, often pewter, containing a dozen pieces of several types. / Pewter vessels in general. / Something added for embellishment. / Clothes; garments, especially when showy or decorative.

Japanese Meaning

複数種類からなる一揃いの食器（しばしば鉛青銅製で、12個のセットで構成される） / 鉛青銅製の容器全般 / 飾りや装飾のために加えられるもの / 華美な、または装飾的な衣服や服飾類

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She displayed the antique garnish on the sideboard, its dozen pewter pieces catching the afternoon light.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

彼女はサイドボードにアンティークの食器揃い（しばしばピューター製で、数種類を合わせた12点セット）を飾り、午後の光がそのピースを輝かせていた。

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Sense（1）

A set of dishes, often pewter, containing a dozen pieces of several types.

Sense（2）

Pewter vessels in general.

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Sense（3）

Something added for embellishment.

First Poets, all the World agrees,

Write half to profit, half to please

Matter and figure They produce;

For Garnish This, and That for Use;

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Sense（4）

Clothes; garments, especially when showy or decorative.

So are you, sweet,

Even in the lovely garnish of a boy.

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Sense（5）

(cooking) Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment.

Sense（6）

(slang, obsolete) Fetters.

Sense（7）

Garnish money, what is customarily spent among the Prisoners at first coming in.

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Sense（8）

(US, slang) Cash.

garnishes

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