Definition of "garibaldi" [ga•ri•bal•di]

• A loose high-necked blouse styled after the red shirts worn by Garibaldi and his soldiers. (noun)
• A bright orange or yellow-orange damselfish (Hypsypops rubicundus) native to coastal marine waters of southern California. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "My mother was always one for very restrained sweet treats- a plain cookie, at the most a "garibaldi"-a flat raisiny biscuit- was as far as she would go towards dessert, or sweet snack, in the absence of a special occasion."
• "My mother was always one for very restrained sweet treats - a plain cookie, at the most a "garibaldi" - a flat raisiny biscuit - was as far as she would go towards dessert, or sweet snack, in the absence of a special occasion."
• "She laughed with the tears in her eyes, and looked down at her school frock -- a black skirt and a white muslin "garibaldi" (the garment so called at that time being extremely like the shirt blouse, or waist, as the"