Definition of "farb" [farb]

• A historical reenactor (especially a US civil war reenactor) whose efforts at a historically accurate portrayal are, in the opinion of the speaker, inadequate. (For example, wearing a modern wristwatch with period costume.) The opposite of farb is "hard-core" (or hardcore), someone who is, in the opinion of the speaker, an "authenticity fanatic". (noun)

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• "To be called a farb, is to be a posuer, a failed reenactor."
• "On being shown the Bavarian flag he spelt: 'lib mudr sei fei farb!'"
• "Then comes the rude awakening: food riots, industrial stagnation, a reign of lawless looting and plunder, everything George Wallace ever warned us against - but the Supreme Court, who are all anarchists with names ending in - stein or - farb or"