galbe

From French galbe. Doublet of garb.

• IPA^(key): /ɡalb/

galbe (plural galbes)

1. The contour or outline of something.
   • 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 1123:

     Her teeth sank into his lips, he felt the sweet galbe of her flanks and arching back.

   • 1921, Aldous Huxley, Chrome Yellow, Penguin Books 1955, p. 7:

     What was the word to describe the curves of those little valleys? They were as fine as the lines of a human body, they were informed with the subtlety of art. Galbe. That was a good word; but it was French.

• Gable, bagel, gabel, gable, gleba

From earlier galbe, garbe, borrowed from Italian garbo, from Italian garbare, from Gothic *𐌲𐌰𐍂𐍅𐍉𐌽 (*garwōn). Alternatively from Middle High German walbe (“slope”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡalb/

galbe m (plural galbes)

1. curve; silhouette

• “galbe” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

galbe

1. vocative masculine singular of galbus