gabbing

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Meanwhile, at the table, she begins to gather herself, ticking the boxes: attention, presence, flow, objectivity over emotionality, correctly reading her opponents while garbing her own “tells,” or gestures that might give away her hand.

From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2020

Where truth is there need be no such garbing; it is only error that requires to be gilded, like the covering to bitter pills, used to render them sweet.

From Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou by Ballou, Maturin Murray

Splendid garbing, brilliant colours, dazzling shining of lights, seats removed a distance apart and up, magnificent outer appointments,—these seem connected in our thought with an occasion and a scene being glorious.

From Quiet Talks on John's Gospel by Gordon, S. D. (Samuel Dickey)

Filipino dandies affected the same garbing, with the exception of here and there a natty, nervous, little brown man who appeared in the more formal black frock coat.

From Uncle Sam's Boys in the Philippines or, Following the Flag against the Moros by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)

After garbing himself, Dollard strolled about the Tegurian vessel.

From Deepfreeze by Locke, Robert Donald