Garnish
WordNet
noun
(1) Any decoration added as a trimming or adornment
(2) Something (such as parsley) added to a dish for flavor or decoration
verb
(3) Decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods
(4) Take a debtor's wages on legal orders, such as for child support
"His employer garnished his wages in order to pay his debt"
WiktionaryText
Verb
- To decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish; as, all within with flowers was garnished.
- To ornament, as a dish, with something laid about it; as, a dish garnished with parsley.
- To furnish; to supply.
- By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent. (Job 26:13, KJV)
- To fit with fetters.
- To warn by garnishment; to give notice to; to garnishee.
Noun
- a set of dishes, often pewter, containing a dozen pieces of several types.
- pewter vessels in general.
- 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 478:
- The accounts of collegiate and monastic institutions give abundant entries of the price of pewter vessels, called also garnish.
- 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 478: