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[[Garb]] is also another name used in the SCA for [[clothing]] or [[costume]]. |
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This page is about the heraldic charge Garb, for information on clothing in the SCA see Clothing.
In heraldry a garb is a wheatsheaf. It was a particularly common charge in period heraldry, but is used relatively infrequently in the SCA.
In English heraldry it has a particular place, as being the charge chosen by the Grosvenor family, when their claim to Azure, a bend or (otherwise the arms of Scrope) was dismissed, and the king ordered them to change their arms altogether, rather than differencing them. Grosvenor chose Azure, a garb or.
