Cloth vs. Garb — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Cloth and Garb
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Cloth
Woven or felted fabric made from wool, cotton, or a similar fibre
A cloth bag
A broad piece of pleated cloth
Garb
A distinctive style or form of clothing; dress
Clerical garb.
Cloth
The clergy; the clerical profession
Has he given up all ideas of the cloth?
Garb
An outward appearance; a guise
Presented their radical ideas in the garb of moderation.
Cloth
Fabric or material formed by weaving, knitting, pressing, or felting natural or synthetic fibers.
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Garb
To clothe; dress
Was garbed in a long robe.
Cloth
A piece of fabric or material used for a specific purpose, as a tablecloth.
Garb
Fashion, style of dressing oneself up.
Cloth
Canvas.
Garb
A type of dress or clothing.
Cloth
A sail.
Garb
(figurative) A guise, external appearance.
Cloth
The characteristic attire of a profession, especially that of the clergy.
Garb
(heraldry) A wheat sheaf.
Cloth
The clergy
A man of the cloth.
Garb
A measure of arrows in the Middle Ages.
Cloth
A fabric, usually made of woven, knitted, or felted fibres or filaments, such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use.
Garb
(transitive) To dress in garb.
Cloth
Specifically, a tablecloth, especially as spread before a meal or removed afterwards.
Garb
Clothing in general.
Cloth
(countable) A piece of cloth used for a particular purpose.
Garb
External appearance, as expressive of the feelings or character; looks; fashion or manner, as of speech.
You thought, because he could not speak English in the native garb, he could not therefore handle an English cudgel.
Cloth
(metaphoric) Substance or essence; the whole of something complex.
Garb
A sheaf of grain (wheat, unless otherwise specified).
Cloth
(metaphoric) Appearance; seeming.
Garb
To clothe; array; deck.
These black dog-DonsGarb themselves bravely.
Cloth
A form of attire that represents a particular profession or status.
Garb
Clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion;
Formal attire
Battle dress
Cloth
(in idioms) Priesthood, clergy.
He is a respected man of the cloth.
Garb
Provide with clothes or put clothes on;
Parents must feed and dress their child
Cloth
A fabric made of fibrous material (or sometimes of wire, as in wire cloth); commonly, a woven fabric of cotton, woolen, or linen, adapted to be made into garments; specifically, woolen fabrics, as distinguished from all others.
Cloth
The dress; raiment. [Obs.] See Clothes.
I'll ne'er distust my God for cloth and bread.
Cloth
The distinctive dress of any profession, especially of the clergy; hence, the clerical profession.
Appeals were made to the priesthood. Would they tamely permit so gross an insult to be offered to their cloth?
The cloth, the clergy, are constituted for administering and for giving the best possible effect to . . . every axiom.
Cloth
Artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers;
The fabric in the curtains was light and semitraqnsparent
Woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC
She measured off enough material for a dress
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