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▪ I. garish, a.1|ˈgɛərɪʃ|
Forms: 6 gaurish, gawrish, gaerishe, 6–7 garishe, 7 garrishe, 6– garish, (9 gairish).
[The early spellings gaurish, gawrish, suggest derivation from gaure v. to stare (cf. garing-stocke, var. gawring-stock = gazing-stock).
The suffix -ish, however, is rarely appended to vb.-stems, and it is doubtful whether any certain instance occurs so early as the 16th c.]
1. Of dress, ornament, ceremonial, etc.: Obtrusively or vulgarly bright in colour, showy, gaudy.
1545T. Raynalde Byrth Mankynde (1552) Prol. C ij b, Soch as..seeke..the abhominable and..garishe setting forth of theyr mortal carcases. 1595Gosson Quips Upst. Gentlew. 260 in Hazl. E.P.P. IV. 261 The better sort, that modest are, Whom garish pompe doth not infect. 1618E. Elton Compl. Sanct. Sinner (1622) 27 That apparell, haply..too garish for the fashion. 1631Sanderson Serm. ad Aulam (1681) II. 3 She will never be light or garish in her Attire. 1636Featly Clavis Myst. xv. 205 The garish service of the Masse. 1675Traherne Chr. Ethics xxvi. 410 By this vertue [humility] we are inclined to despise our selves, and to leave all the garish ornaments of earthly bliss. 1756Demi-Rep. 21 Nor garish dress corrupt the female mind. 1820W. Irving Sketch Bk. (1859) 51 Looking about..with a vacant air, that showed her insensibility to the garish scene. 1827Keble Chr. Y. 2nd Sund. Epiph. iv, The world's gay garish feast. 1837W. Irving Capt. Bonneville II. 44 Garish beads, and glittering trinkets, were bought at any price. 1855Thackeray Newcomes II. 161 Hymen..exchanged his garish saffron coloured robe for decent temporary mourning.
fig.1643Milton Divorce ii. xxii. (1851) 128 The ceremoniall part, which led the Jews as children through corporal and garish rudiments. 1885Edw. Garrett At Any Cost xvii. 300 What a discord her appearance would have struck in his garish, rapid life.
2. Of colour: Excessively bright, glaring.
a1568R. Ascham Scholem. i. (Arb.) 54 Som new disguised garment..fond in facion, or gaurish in colour. 1611Coryat Crudities 260 All the most light, garish, and vnseemely colours. 1797Mrs. Radcliffe Italian xxxvi. (1824) 697 The colours were all too fresh and garish for the meek dejection of her woe. 1860W. Collins Wom. White ii. ii. 170 All of light garish colours.
b. of light (day, the sun, etc.).
1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. iii. ii. 25 That all the world will be in Loue with night, And pay no worship to the Garish Sun. 1632Milton Penseroso 141 Hide me from day's garish eye. 1788V. Knox Winter Even. I. i. 3 There seems to be something in the garish splendour of a bright sunshine. 1833J. H. Newman Hymn, ‘Lead Kindly Light’, I loved the garish day. 1879Edw. Garrett House by Wks. II. 16 Lydia shrank from the morning hours and the garish sunshine.
3. Adorned to excess; too highly coloured or decorated.
1587Turberv. Trag. T. (1837) 47 Not forcing stately builded bowres, nor gallant garish tentes. 1604Dekker 1st Pt. Honest Wh. x. Wks. 1873 II. 56 What fooles are men to build a garish tombe, Onely to save the carcase whilst it rots. 1604Drayton Owl 178 Wisdome not all, in every garish Bird, Shrewdly suspect. 1850W. Irving Goldsmith xi. 140 His essays..did not produce equal effect at first with more garish writings of..less value. 1858Dickens Lett. (1880) II. 73 All sorts of garish triumphal arches were put up. 1887Times 27 Aug. 10/2 They are spoiling..the banks of the Grand Canal with enormous and countless garish signboards.
†4. Wanting in self-restraint, flighty. Obs.
1650Jer. Taylor Holy Living ii. §2. 70 Temperance is accompanied with gravity of deportment: greedinesse is garish, and rejoyces loosely at the sight of dainties. 1662–87Hy. More Enthus. Triumph (1712) 35 Blurting out any garish foolery that comes into their mind. 1678South Serm. (1823) II. 160 Fame and glory makes the mind loose and garish.
†5. adv. = garishly. Obs.
1589R. Harvey Pl. Perc. (1860) 34 If any aske why thou art clad so garish, Say thou art dubd the forehorse of the parish.
▪ II. garish, a.2
see under gare n.2
▪ III. garish
var. guarish v., to cure. |