different between garb vs semblance

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???(?)b/
• Rhymes: -??(?)b

Etymology 1

From Middle French garbe (“graceful outline”) (Modern French galbe), from Italian garbo (“grace, elegance”), perhaps from Germanic (compare Old High German garwi, garawi (“dress, equipment, preparation”) and English gear), ultimately from Frankish *garwijan (“to prepare”), from Proto-Germanic *garwijan? (“to prepare”).

Noun

garb (countable and uncountable, plural garbs)

1. Fashion, style of dressing oneself up. [from late 16^thc.]
2. A type of dress or clothing. [from early 17^thc.]

   • 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.

3. (figuratively) A guise, external appearance.

Translations

Verb

garb (third-person singular simple present garbs, present participle garbing, simple past and past participle garbed)

1. (transitive) To dress in garb.

Translations

Etymology 2

French gerbe; akin to German Garbe. Doublet of gerbe.

Noun

garb (plural garbs)

1. (heraldry) A wheat sheaf.
2. 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.

Translations

Anagrams

• ARGB, brag, grab

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *g?rb?, *g?rba

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?arp/

Noun

garb m inan

1. a hump (rounded fleshy mass)
2. a hump (deformity of the human back)

Declension

Related terms

• garbaty
• garbus
• garbi? si?

Further reading

• garb in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• garb in Polish dictionaries at PWN

English

Alternative forms

• semblaunce

Etymology

From Middle English semblaunce, from Old French semblance, from semblant, present participle of sembler.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s?m.bl?ns/

Noun

semblance (countable and uncountable, plural semblances)

1. likeness, similarity; the quality of being similar.
2. the way something looks; appearance; form

Synonyms

• (likeness): veneer

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References

Further reading

• semblance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• semblance in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.