Dictionary entry

Wardrobe

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Ward″robe′ (?), n. [OE. warderobe, OF. warderobe, F. garderobe; of German origin. See Ward, v. t., and Robe.]

1. A room or apartment where clothes are kept, or wearing apparel is stored; a portable closet for hanging up clothes.

2. Wearing apparel, in general; articles of dress or personal decoration.

Flowers that their gay wardrobe wear. Milton.

With a pair of saddlebags containing his wardrobe. T. Hughes.

3. A privy. Chaucer.