garniture
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This anecdote strikes me as a great example of early bar myth-building — the pre-Prohibition equivalent of drinks that change color or have an elaborate scaffolding of garniture on top.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2019
His "garniture" set of armour, worn for war and jousting, featured a lock on the glove, gripping the sword and preventing the combatant dropping his weapon.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 31, 2010
Even to French Socialists the stomach and its garniture are matters to be approached with reverence.
From Time Magazine Archive
The mouldy shells were piled one upon another, and a few rusty fragments of that flimsy garniture, which was in vogue of old, had fallen on the bricks below.
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by A Sexton of the Old School
The most appropriate spots in which first to watch the footsteps of Summer are amid “the pomp of Groves, and garniture of Fields.”
From Mirror of the Months by Peter George Patmore
