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Garb vs Semblance - What's the difference?

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Garb is a related term of semblance.


As nouns the difference between garb and semblance

is that garb is fashion, style of dressing oneself up or garb can be (heraldiccharge) a wheat sheaf while semblance is likeness, similarity; the quality of being similar.

As a verb garb

is to dress in garb.

garb

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) and (etyl) gear).

Noun

(en noun)
  • Fashion, style of dressing oneself up.
  • A type of dress or clothing.
  • *
  • *: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.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To dress in garb.

    • Etymology 2

    (etyl) gerbe; akin to German Garbe

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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.
    • Yorkshire supplied 500 bows, and 580 garbs of arrows, 360 of which had iron heads pointed with steel.''

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    semblance

    English

    Alternative forms

    * semblaunce

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • likeness, similarity; the quality of being similar.
  • Seeming; appearance; show; figure; form.

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