English Dictionary

garnish

/ˈɡɑɹnɪʃ/

noun

A set of dishes, often pewter, containing a dozen pieces of several types. / Pewter vessels in general. / Something added for embellishment. / Clothes; garments, especially when showy or decorative.

The chef added a beautiful garnish to the plate.

意味（1）

A set of dishes, often pewter, containing a dozen pieces of several types.

意味（2）

Pewter vessels in general.

The accounts of collegiate and monastic institutions give abundant entries of the price of pewter vessels, called also garnish.

意味（3）

Something added for embellishment.

First Poets, all the World agrees,

Write half to profit, half to please

Matter and figure They produce;

First Poets, all the World agrees, Write half to profit, half to please Matter and figure They produce; For Garnish This, and That for Use;

意味（4）

Clothes; garments, especially when showy or decorative.

So are you, sweet,

So are you, sweet, Even in the lovely garnish of a boy.

意味（5）

(cooking) Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment.

意味（6）

(slang, obsolete) Fetters.

意味（7）

(slang, historical) A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded from a newcomer by the older prisoners.

Garnish money, what is customarily spent among the Prisoners at first coming in.

意味（8）

(US, slang) Cash.