[Bryn-gwlad] Bryn-gwlad Digest, Vol 10, Issue 35

[Eule]

"WOOT!" 

(tongue *firmly* planted in check)

;-)

Eule/Steve
Unus sed Leo
 


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Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 11:55 PM
To: Barony of Bryn Gwlad
Subject: Re: [Bryn-gwlad] Bryn-gwlad Digest, Vol 10, Issue 35


On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Sir Lyonel Oliver Grace <sirlyonel at hotmail.com>
wrote:
> You lost me on garb. Garb is clothing. Most folks don't use the term 
> in reference to their quotidien clothing. What's wrong with using the 
> term garb to refer to reenactment clothing? It *is* garb. The word has

> been part of the English language since at least 1585.

Cite?  The Oxford English Dictionary, 1st ed., dates "garb" as a "a
wheat-sheaf" to 1502, but "fashion of dress" to 1622.

Danett Lincoln
-- 
Tim McDaniel; Reply-To: tmcd at panix.com
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