civilian garb

What does civilian garb mean?

civilian garb means "ordinary clothing as distinguished from uniforms, work clothes, clerical garb, etc.".

What is another word for civilian garb?

Close synonyms include civilian clothing, civilian dress, plain clothes. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is civilian garb a common word?

civilian garb is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for civilian garb come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.