wardrobe
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation 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.
- (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 Thesaurus:bathroom
- French: garde-robe, armoire
- German: Garderobe, Kleiderschrank
- Italian: armadio, guardaroba
- Portuguese: guarda-roupa, armário, guarda-roupas
- Russian: шкаф
- Spanish: armario, ropero, clóset, escaparate, empotrado, placard, alacena
- Italian: guardaroba
- Portuguese: guarda-roupa, figurino
- Russian: гардеро́б
- Italian: guardaroba
- Portuguese: guarda-roupa, vestiário, vestuário
- Russian: гардеро́б
wardrobe (wardrobes, present participle wardrobing; past and past participle wardrobed)
- (intransitive) To act as a wardrobe department, to provide clothing or sets of clothes.
- 1954 December 11, Billboard, p. 20:
- […] impressed with the quality of the talent and production, good wardrobing and speedy pacing.
- 1954 December 11, Billboard, p. 20:
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