wardrobe

Definitions

1. A room for keeping clothes and armor safe, particularly a dressing room or walk-in closet beside a bedroom.
   obsolete
2. A governmental office or department in a monarchy which purchases, keeps, and cares for royal clothes.
   figuratively
3. The building housing such a department.
   figuratively
4. Any closet used for storing anything.
   obsolete
5. A room for keeping costumes and other property safe at a theater; a prop room.
6. The department of a theater, movie studio, etc which purchases, keeps, and cares for costumes; its staff; its room(s) or building(s).
   figuratively
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.
9. Anything that similarly stores or houses something.
   figuratively, uncommon
10. The contents of a wardrobe: an individual's entire collection of clothing.
11. Any collection of clothing.
    figuratively
12. Any collection of anything.
    figuratively, uncommon
13. A private chamber, particularly one used for sleeping or (euphemistic) urinating and defecating.
    obsolete
14. Badger feces, particularly used in tracking game.
    obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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