Clothing vs Garment - What's the difference?
clothing | garment |
Any of a wide variety of articles, usually made of fabrics, animal hair, animal skin, or some combination thereof, used to cover the human body for warmth, to preserve modesty, or for fashion.
* Milton
An act or instance of putting clothes on.
(obsolete) The art of process of making cloth.
* Ray
A covering of non-conducting material on the outside of a boiler, or steam chamber, to prevent radiation of heat.
A single item of 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.
As nouns the difference between clothing and garment
is that clothing is any of a wide variety of articles, usually made of fabrics, animal hair, animal skin, or some combination thereof, used to cover the human body for warmth, to preserve modesty, or for fashion while garment is a single item of clothing.As a verb clothing
is (clothe).clothing
English
Verb
(head)Noun
- From others he shall stand in need of nothing, / Yet on his brothers shall depend for clothing .
- The clothing and unclothing of the idols was of special significance.
- Instructing [refugees] in the art of clothing .
- (Knight)