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wardrobe

[ wawr-drohb ]

noun

  1. a stock of clothes or costumes, as of a person or of a theatrical company.
  2. a piece of furniture for holding clothes, now usually a tall, upright case fitted with hooks, shelves, etc.
  3. a room or place in which to keep clothes or costumes.
  4. the department of a royal or other great household charged with the care of wearing apparel.
  5. a department in a motion-picture or television studio in charge of supplying and maintaining costumes:

    Report to wardrobe right after lunch.



verb (used with object)

wardrobed, wardrobing.
  1. to provide with a wardrobe.

wardrobe

/ ˈwɔːdrəʊb /

noun

  1. a tall closet or cupboard, with a rail or hooks on which to hang clothes
  2. the total collection of articles of clothing belonging to one person
  3. the collection of costumes belonging to a theatre or theatrical company
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of wardrobe1

1250–1300; Middle English warderobe < Anglo-French. See ward (v.), robe
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Word History and Origins

Origin of wardrobe1

C14: from Old Northern French warderobe, from warder to guard + robe robe
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Example Sentences

These are your kitchen’s building blocks — the culinary equivalent of a wardrobe’s white t-shirt and blue jeans.

From Salon

The skinhead wardrobe and Nazi tattoos were counterproductive, Metzger came to believe, and it was high time they went undercover and dressed “normally” to blend in.

A gun case and jewellery boxes in the wardrobe are empty.

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Launched in 2019, Djerf Avenue rapidly gained a following among young women for wardrobe staples such as oversize button-down shirts and trousers.

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Others took jabs with punchlines that drew from Timberlake’s previous turns in the pop culture spotlight, including the 2004 incident where the term “wardrobe malfunction” was born.

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