Wardrobe

/ˈwɔːdɹəʊb/ · noun

Meaning

(obsolete) A room for keeping clothes and armor safe, particularly a dressing room or walk-in closet beside a bedroom..

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete) A room for keeping clothes and armor safe, particularly a dressing room or walk-in closet beside a bedroom.
2. (figuratively) A governmental office or department in a monarchy which purchases, keeps, and cares for royal clothes.
3. (figuratively) The building housing such a department.
4. (obsolete) Any closet used for storing anything.
5. A room for keeping costumes and other property safe at a theater; a prop room.
6. (figuratively) The department of a theater, movie studio, etc which purchases, keeps, and cares for costumes; its staff; its room(s) or building(s).
7. A movable cupboard or cabinet designed for storing clothes, particularly as a large piece of bedroom furniture.
8. A tall built-in cupboard or closet for storing clothes, often including a rail for coat-hangers, and usually located in a bedroom.

Example Sentences

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.

Now death... crams his store house to the top with bloud, Might I now and Andrea in one fight, Make vp thy wardroope Richer by a knight.

[…] impressed with the quality of the talent and production, good wardrobing and speedy pacing.

Wardrobing, the act of buying a nice piece of clothing, wearing it once, and returning it, is an $8.8 billion problem for the retail industry.

Wardrobing is where people will order the same thing in three different sizes to see which one fits and then they return the other two, not realizing that those other two most of the time don’t go back on that retailer’s shelves.

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Word Forms

• wardrobes
• wardrobing
• wardrobed

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