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Garb vs Apparel - What's the difference?

garb | apparel |

As nouns the difference between garb and apparel

is that garb is fashion, style of dressing oneself up or garb can be (heraldiccharge) a wheat sheaf while apparel is clothing.

As verbs the difference between garb and apparel

is that garb is to dress in garb while apparel is to furnish with apparatus; to equip; to fit out.

garb

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) and (etyl) gear).

Noun

(en noun)
  • Fashion, style of dressing oneself up.
  • A type of dress or clothing.
  • *
  • *:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.Indeed, all his features were in large mold, like the man himself, as though he had come from a day when skin garments made the proper garb of men.
  • (lb) A guise, external appearance.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • *:You thought, because he could not speak English in the native garb , he could not therefore handle an English cudgel.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To dress in garb.

    • Etymology 2

    (etyl) gerbe; akin to German Garbe

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (heraldiccharge) A wheat sheaf.
  • A measure of arrows in the Middle Ages.
  • * 1957 , H. R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry , page 118.
    • Yorkshire supplied 500 bows, and 580 garbs of arrows, 360 of which had iron heads pointed with steel.''

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    apparel

    English

    Noun

  • clothing
  • * Denham
    • fresh in his new apparel , proud and young
  • * Tatler
    • At public devotion his resigned carriage made religion appear in the natural apparel of simplicity.
  • A small ornamental piece of embroidery worn on albs and some other ecclesiastical vestments.
  • (nautical) The furniture of a ship, such as masts, sails, rigging, anchors, guns, etc.

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    Verb

  • To furnish with apparatus; to equip; to fit out.
    • Ships . . . appareled to fight. --Hayward.
  • To dress or clothe; to attire.
    • They which are gorgeously appareled , and live delicately, are in kings' courts. --Luke vii. 25.
  • To dress with external ornaments; to cover with something ornamental; to deck; to embellish; as, trees appareled with flowers, or a garden with verdure.