Garb vs Robe - What's the difference?
garb | robe |
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.
A long loose outer garment, often signifying honorary stature.
* Shakespeare
(US) The skin of an animal, especially the bison, dressed with the fur on, and used as a wrap.
To clothe someone in a robe.
As nouns the difference between garb and robe
is that garb is fashion, style of dressing oneself up while robe is a long loose outer garment, often signifying honorary stature.As verbs the difference between garb and robe
is that garb is to dress in garb while robe is to clothe someone in a robe.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
* * ----robe
English
Noun
(en noun)- Through tattered clothes small vices do appear; / Robes and furred gowns hide all.
