Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A chamber for storing clothes; a wardrobe.
- n. The contents of a wardrobe.
- n. Archaic A private chamber.
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- From Middle French garderobe, from garder ("to keep") + robe ("robe, dress"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old French : garder, to keep; see guard + robe, robe; see robe. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Across Europe, by the middle of the Middle Ages, a new room called a garderobe, originally a French word meaning a room to keep clothes in, could be found in all the more modern castles and homes.”
“Gee, Ben, I thought "garderobe" is where you lived. these until today.”
“You were right underneath the castle's garderobe," they say, going on to explain how the neat little hiding place would once have been knee-deep in poo.”
“Several more volumes abruptly vanished into the locked caskets in the garderobe.”
“May 28, 2010 at 12:43 pm an a garderobe uv gawdiness!”
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“So wrecky that they'd even make Princess Buttercup lock herself in the castle garderobe and wail.”
“A silkworm, therefore, is not made to cover my legs, exactly as your mouth is made for eating, and another part of your person for the “garderobe.””
“Despite the persistent rain, which made the summer dig more difficult, the team managed to excavate into the ditch surrounding the castle, where they uncovered the medieval garderobe, or latrine, of the castle.”
“I am sure that even in your own garderobe you have things like: tight jeans pants, miniskirts, tube tops, belly shirts, tank tops, bikinis, and an evening dress or two.”
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“Towards the end of the evening, when the entertainers were in full song, she had excused herself, saying that she had to visit the garderobe.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘garderobe’.
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Visuals
A list of words which yield surprising, beautiful, amusing, or otherwise noteworthy images here on Wordnik.
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extra room
An add-on to Trivet's list elbow room and Lampbane's list 2BDRM W/VU that tries not to duplicate Trivet's and Lampbane's existing rooms. Virtual, allegorical and proverbial rooms accepted.
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250 Further Spelling Words
Another compilation of spelling words suitable for intermediate to advanced spellers.
venturi, aesir, affenpinscher, rottweiler, amanuensis, balletomane, sangfroid, yukata, capriccio, cuisse, heriot, psaltery and 236 more...
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Storage Facilities
bankshall, storehouse, granary, cornhouse, garner, grange, bodega, repository, sceuophylacium, skeuophylakion, bookhouse, reliquary and 100 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
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French words in German language
words and phrases with french background commonly used in the german language, so-called "Gallizismen"
trottoir, paravent, rayon, perron, fauteuil, garage, arrangement, etablissement, portemonnaie, parterre, coupé, voliere and 123 more...
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Castles and Keeps
Shamelessly ripped off from this site and others (to be named hereinafter). (Fair warning: for my own edification, I may add definitions/comments from the site, but you might want to just go there ...
abutment, adulterine, allure, angle-spur, apse, arbalest, arbalestier, arbalist, arcade, arch, armoury, arrow slit and 410 more...
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Sweet Smoke of Rhetoric
The ones with which I flavor my speech, and the ones I love to find peppered in literature.
perspicacious, acerbic, vituperation, loquacious, castigate, vitriolic, scintillating, provenance, frolic, attendant, pursuant, epistemology and 313 more...
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Luck in the Shadows
Words and phrases from Lynn Flewelling's book, Luck in the Shadows.
belly, barbican, pediment, withers, hirsute, oriel, tabard, telesm, thaumaturgy, switch, spargetaction, towheaded and 125 more...
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Les mots emprunté
sangfroid, frontispiece, abatis, abattoir, accoutrement, adroit, depliage, deracinate, deshabille, dirigisme, distrait, douceur and 52 more...
Tweets
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reesetee Zoiks! Aug 25, 2008
chained_bear I love the mix of uses in this definition: In castle architecture, "Latrine, toilet, or bathroom. A room to store personal items. Wardrobe." Aug 25, 2008