garb vs kirtle

garb

noun
  • A type of dress or clothing. 

  • A guise, external appearance. 

  • Fashion, style of dressing oneself up. 

  • A measure of arrows in the Middle Ages. 

  • A wheat sheaf. 

verb
  • To dress in garb. 

kirtle

noun
  • A woman's gown; a woman's outer petticoat or skirt. 

  • A knee-length tunic. 

  • A short jacket. 

verb
  • To clothe or cover with, or as if with, a kirtle; to hitch up (a long garment) to the length of a kirtle. 

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