👉 An "engarde" in linguistics refers to a grammatical structure that consists of one or more verbs and their complements (i.e., gerunds) in a sentence. The English word "engarde" comes from Latin, where it meant "to cut off," but it can also refer to the act of cutting something off. In the context of grammar, "engarde" is used to indicate the grammatical structure that allows for the formation of new sentences by combining two or more