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Attired vs Garbed - What's the difference?

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Attired is a related term of garbed.


As verbs the difference between attired and garbed

is that attired is simple past and past participle of attire while garbed is (garb).

As an adjective attired

is (heraldry) said of the horns of a stag when they are of a different tincture to its head.

attired

English

Adjective

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  • (heraldry) Said of the horns of a stag when they are of a different tincture to its head.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • Simple past and past participle of attire.

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    garbed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (garb)

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    garb

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) and (etyl) gear).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Fashion, style of dressing oneself up.
  • A type of dress or clothing.
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  • *: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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