wardrobe

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A tall piece of furniture used for storing clothes.

   She hung her coat in the wardrobe.

2. 2
   noun

   All the clothes that one person owns.

   He bought a whole new wardrobe for his trip.

3. 3
   noun

   The collection of costumes belonging to a theatre or film company.

   The costume designer manages the entire wardrobe.

Simplified etymology

Wardrobe entered English in late Middle English as a name for a place where clothes were watched over or kept, from the same Germanic root as ward. It was once interchangeable with garderobe, and both could also denote a small private room; wardrobe even formerly had the sense “lavatory.”

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. Doublet of garderobe.

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