Meaning of wardrobe | Babel Free

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

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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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