wardrobe

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A movable cupboard or cabinet designed for storing clothes, particularly as a large piece of bedroom furniture.

   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.

2. 2
   noun

   Anything that similarly stores or houses something.

   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.

3. 3
   verb

   To act as a wardrobe department, to provide clothing or sets of clothes.

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

4. 4
   verb

   Ordering a clothing item online and returning it for a refund after having worn it.

   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.

5. 5
   verb

   Ordering multiple sizes of the same clothing item online and returning all but the one that fits best.

   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.

6. 6
   noun

   a tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes

7. 7
   noun

   collection of clothing belonging to one person

8. 8
   noun

   collection of costumes belonging to a theatrical company

Etymology

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.