Garned vs Garbed - What's the difference?
garned | garbed |
* 1995 , Gerald Martin Bordman, American Theatre: A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama, 1914–1930 ,[http://books.google.com/books?id=mmr35sTB0AoC] Oxford University Press, ISBN 0195090780, page 173,
* 2004 July 11, “ing”, “
* 2007 , Robert Niedzwiecki, "SU’s win twice as nice for Lunsfords", The Winchester Star , October 18, 2007
* 2007 , "USF women's hoops picked sixth", Examiner.com, Oct 10, 2007
(garb)
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.
As verbs the difference between garned and garbed
is that garned is while garbed is (garb).garned
English
Verb
(head)- The playing could not have been at fault, since the two principals garned notices every bit as friendly as the play’s.
Re: Bradbury's pissed”, in misc.writing, Usenet ,
- No, you are not disqualified -- but if your information is garned from other sources, it is subject to those sources [sic] opinions and their viewpoints ... and hence, cannot be truly your opinion, unless you feel the need to exactly mirror *their* opinions, based on their say-so. [ellipsis in original]
- Waynesburg is now 6-0 and ranked No. 25 in the AFCA Division III poll, though the Yellow Jackets haven’t garned so much as a single vote in the D3football.com poll.
- Loyola Marymount garned one first-place vote.
garbed
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* *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.''
