guise vs semblance

guise

noun
  • External appearance in manner or dress; appropriate indication or expression; garb; shape. 

  • Customary way of speaking or acting; fashion, manner, practice (often used formerly in such phrases as "at his own guise"; that is, in his own fashion, to suit himself.) 

  • Misleading appearance; cover, cloak. 

semblance

noun
  • the way something looks; appearance; form 

  • likeness, similarity; the quality of being similar. 

How often have the words guise and semblance occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )