Garb vs Cloth - What's the difference?
garb | cloth |
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.
(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.
(uncountable) A woven fabric such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use.
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, chapter=2 A piece of cloth used for a particular purpose.
A form of attire that represents a particular profession.
(in idioms) Priesthood, clergy.
As nouns the difference between garb and cloth
is that garb is fashion, style of dressing oneself up while cloth is a woven fabric such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use.As a verb garb
is to dress in garb.garb
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) and (etyl) gear).Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
(etyl) gerbe; akin to German GarbeNoun
(en noun)- Yorkshire supplied 500 bows, and 580 garbs of arrows, 360 of which had iron heads pointed with steel.''
Anagrams
* * ----cloth
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete) * (l), (l), (l) (Scotland)Noun
(en-noun)citation, passage=“H'm !” he said, “so, so—it is a tragedy in a prologue and three acts. I am going down this afternoon to see the curtain fall for the third time on what [...] will prove a good burlesque ; but it all began dramatically enough. It was last Saturday […] that two boys, playing in the little spinney just outside Wembley Park Station, came across three large parcels done up in American cloth . […]”}}