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Garb vs Togs - What's the difference?

garb | togs | Synonyms |

Togs is a synonym of garb.



As nouns the difference between garb and togs

is that garb is fashion, style of dressing oneself up while togs is plural of lang=en.

As verbs the difference between garb and togs

is that garb is to dress in garb while togs is third-person singular of tog.

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.''

    Anagrams

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    togs

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • (UK, plural only) Clothes.
  • 1837-39 , ,
  • :: 'Look at his togs', Fagin!' said Charley, putting the light so close to his new jacket as nearly to set him on fire. 'Look at his ' togs ! Superfine cloth, and the heavy swell cut! Oh, my eye, what a game! And his books, too! Nothing but a gentleman, Fagin!'
  • (with noun qualifier, plural only) Clothes for a specific occasion or use.
  • gardening togs''', swimming '''togs
  • A swimsuit.
  • Synonyms

    * (clothes for specific occasion or use) bathers, cossie, swimmers

    Verb

    (head)
  • (tog)
  • Anagrams

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