Garb vs Finery - What's the difference?
garb | finery | Synonyms |
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.
(obsolete) Fineness; beauty.
Ornament; decoration; especially, excessive decoration; showy clothes; jewels.
(ironworking) A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling.
* 1957 , H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry , p. 160:
Garb is a synonym of finery.
As nouns the difference between garb and finery
is that garb is fashion, style of dressing oneself up or garb can be (heraldiccharge) a wheat sheaf while finery is (obsolete) fineness; beauty.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
* * ----finery
English
Noun
- In front of the finery hearth in which the sow is melted down again, the finer is working with a long iron bar called a ringer (from French 'ringard') with which he keeps the molten iron in motion by stirring, an essential stage in the process of refining.