WARDROBE

wardrobe, closet, press

(noun) a tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes

wardrobe

(noun) collection of clothing belonging to one person

wardrobe

(noun) collection of costumes belonging to a theatrical company

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

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.

A tall built-in cupboard or closet for storing clothes, often including a rail for coat-hangers, and usually located in a bedroom.

(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 (euphemism) urinating and defecating.

(hunting, obsolete) Badger feces, particularly used in tracking game.

Synonyms

• (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 bathroom

Verb

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.

Anagrams

• bareword, bore draw, bore-draw, drawbore

Source: Wiktionary

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Ward"robe`, n. Etym: [OE. warderobe, OF. warderobe, F. garderobe; of German origin. See Ward, v. t., and Robe.]

1. A room or apartment where clothes are kept, or wearing apparel is stored; a portable closet for hanging up clothes.

2. Wearing apparel, in general; articles of dress or personal decoration. Flowers that their gay wardrobe wear. Milton. With a pair of saddlebags containing his wardrobe. T. Hughes.

3. A privy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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