Garb vs Farb - What's the difference?
garb | farb |
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.
(US) A historical reenactor (especially a US civil war reenactor) whose efforts at a historically accurate portrayal are, in the opinion of the speaker, inadequate. (For example, wearing a modern wristwatch with period costume.) The opposite of farb is "hard-core" (or hardcore), someone who is, in the opinion of the speaker, an "authenticity fanatic".
As nouns the difference between garb and farb
is that garb is fashion, style of dressing oneself up while farb is a historical reenactor (especially a US civil war reenactor) whose efforts at a historically accurate portrayal are, in the opinion of the speaker, inadequate. (For example, wearing a modern wristwatch with period costume.) The opposite of farb is "hard-core" (or hardcore), someone who is, in the opinion of the speaker, an "authenticity fanatic".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.''
