wardrobe
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English warderobe, from Old Northern French warderoube, wardereube, northern variants of Old French garderobe, from garder (“to keep safe”) + robe. Subsequently influenced by various senses of garderobe as they developed in French.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): / ˈwɔːdɹəʊb/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈwɔɹdɹoʊb/
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Noun[edit]
wardrobe (plural wardrobes)
- (obsolete) A room for keeping clothes and armor safe, particularly a dressing room or walk-in closet beside a bedroom.
- (figuratively) A governmental office or department in a monarchy which purchases, keeps, and cares for royal clothes.
- (figuratively) The building housing such a department.
- (obsolete) Any closet used for storing anything.
- A room for keeping costumes and other property safe at a theater; a prop room.
- (figuratively) The department of a theater, movie studio, etc which purchases, keeps, and cares for costumes; its staff; its room(s) or building(s).
- A movable cupboard or cabinet designed for storing clothes, particularly as a large piece of bedroom furniture.
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1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess[1]:
- A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.
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- (figuratively, uncommon) Anything that similarly stores or houses something.
- The contents of a wardrobe: an individual's entire collection of clothing.
- (figuratively) Any collection of clothing.
- (figuratively, uncommon) Any collection of anything.
- (obsolete) A private chamber, particularly one used for sleeping or (euphemistic) urinating and defecating.
- (hunting, obsolete) Badger shit: the feces produced by badgers, particularly used in tracking game.
Synonyms[edit]
- (movable furniture for storing clothes): armoir, dresser; cupboard (UK); closet (regional US), press (Irish & Scots), shrank
- (department overseeing costumes): costume department
- (sleeping chamber): See bedroom
- (lavatory or outhouse): See Thesaurus:bathroom
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Translations[edit]
movable furniture for storing clothes
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costume department
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collection of clothing
outhouse — see outhouse
lavatory — see toilet
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Verb[edit]
wardrobe (third-person singular simple present wardrobes, present participle wardrobing, simple past and past participle wardrobed)
- (intransitive) To act as a wardrobe department, to provide clothing or sets of clothes.
- 1954 December 11, Billboard, p. 20:
- […] impressed with the quality of the talent and production, good wardrobing and speedy pacing.
- 1954 December 11, Billboard, p. 20:
References[edit]
- "wardrobe, n." in the Oxford English Dictionary (1921), Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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