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.

#: By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent. (Job 26:13, KJV)

1. To fit with fetters.
2. law To warn by garnishment; to give notice to; to garnishee.

Translations
trans-top|To decorate with ornamental appendages
Finnish: koristella
Icelandic: skreyta
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Spanish: guarnecer
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trans-top|To ornament
Finnish: koristella
Icelandic:
trans-mid
Spanish: guarnecer
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trans-top|To furnish; to supply
Spanish: guarnecer
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trans-top|To fit with fetters
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trans-bottom

trans-top|To warn by garnishment
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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.

Translations
Icelandic: skreyting f

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