galbe

Syllable Decomposition

gal

from Italian garbo (form, manner in which something is made) related to gabarit. attested in 1551 in the form of garbe ('with good grace') and a few years later in the modern form of galbe and the meaning of 'grace'; a century later, in 1676, we find galbe with the meaning of 'more or less curved contour'.

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See also

galbes (v.) galbe (cn.)