3syllables
garnishes
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Definitions ofgarnishes
1noun
- A set of dishes, often pewter, containing a dozen pieces of several types.
- Pewter vessels in general.
- Something added for embellishment.
Synonyms: decoration, ornament
- Clothes; garments, especially when showy or decorative.
- Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment.
- Fetters.
- A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded from a newcomer by the older prisoners.
- Cash.
1verb
- To decorate with ornaments; to adorn; to embellish.
- To ornament with something placed around it.
Example: "a dish garnished with parsley"
- To furnish; to supply.
- To fit with fetters; to fetter.
- To warn by garnishment; to give notice to.
- To have (money) set aside by court order (particularly for the payment of alleged debts); to garnishee.
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