Crossword clues for wardrobe
wardrobe
- Film studio department
- A tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes
- Has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes
- Collection of clothing belonging to one person
- Collection of costumes belonging to a theatrical company
- Armoire
- Clotheshorse's need
- Archbishop’s big attraction? Looking up players’ kit!
- Minor Republican given award for costumes
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wardrobe \Ward"robe`\, n. [OE. warderobe, OF. warderobe, F. garderobe; of German origin. See Ward, v. t., and Robe.]
A room or apartment where clothes are kept, or wearing apparel is stored; a portable closet for hanging up clothes.
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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. A privy. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., "room where wearing apparel is kept," earlier "a private chamber" (c.1300), from Old North French warderobe, wardereube (Old French garderobe) "dressing-room, place where garments are kept," from warder "to keep, guard" (see ward (v.)) + robe "garment" (see robe (n.)). Meaning "a person's stock of clothes for wearing" is recorded from c.1400. Sense of "movable closed cupboard for wearing apparel" is recorded from 1794. Meaning "room in which theatrical costumes are kept" is attested from 1711. Wardrobe malfunction is from 2004.
Wiktionary
n. A cabinet in which clothes may be stored. vb. (context intransitive English) To provide (a film, a customer, etc.) with clothing.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A Wardrobe is a cabinet used for storing clothes.
Wardrobe may also refer to:
- Wardrobe (clothing), a full set of multiple clothing items
- Wardrobe (government), part of royal administration in medieval England
- Wardrobe stylist, someone who picks out the clothing worn by celebrities, models or other public figures
- Wardrobe Supervisor, in theatre, the person responsible for supervising all wardrobe related activities
- Royal Wardrobe, a building destroyed in the Great Fire of London of 1666
- a regimental museum in Salisbury, England
- a character in Disney's 1991 animated film Beauty and the Beast
- a nickname of Papa Bouba Diop, a football player from Senegal
The King's Wardrobe, together with the Chamber, made up the personal part of medieval English government known as the King's household. Originally the room where the king's clothes, armour and treasure were stored the term was expanded to describe both its contents and the department of clerks who ran it. Early in the reign of Henry III the Wardrobe emerged out of the fragmentation of the Curia Regis to become the chief administrative and accounting department of the Household. The Wardrobe received regular block grants from the Exchequer for much of its history; in addition, however, the wardrobe treasure of gold and jewels enabled the king to make secret and rapid payments to fund his diplomatic and military operations, and for a time, in the 13th-14th centuries, it eclipsed the Exchequer as the chief spending department of central government.
There were in fact two main Wardrobes for much of this period: around 1300 the confusingly-named Great Wardrobe, responsible only for expenditure on such things clothing, textiles, furs and spices, split away from the more senior Wardrobe, which remained responsible for financing the king's personal expenditure and his military operations. In addition there were smaller Privy Wardrobes at various royal palaces; most of these provided items for the personal use of the King when in residence, but the Privy Wardrobe in the Tower of London came to specialize in the storage and manufacture of armour and armaments, and as such it too developed into an autonomous department of the State.
By the 15th century the Wardrobe had lost much of its earlier influence, and it eventually merged entirely into the Household and lost its separate identity. At the same time, the Great Wardrobe began to be referred to, more simply, as "the Wardrobe", to some extent taking on the identity of its forebear; but in the sixteenth century the Great Wardrobe lost its independence (it continued in existence as a subsidiary department within the Royal Household until it was abolished by the Civil List and Secret Service Money Act 1782).
A wardrobe is a standing closet used for storing clothes. The earliest wardrobe was a chest, and it was not until some degree of luxury was attained in regal palaces and the castles of powerful nobles that separate accommodation was provided for the apparel of the great. The name of wardrobe was then given to a room in which the wall-space was filled with closets and lockers, the drawer being a comparatively modern invention. From these cupboards and lockers the modern wardrobe, with its hanging spaces, sliding shelves and drawers, evolved slowly.
Throughout the chronological changes in the form of the enclosure, it more or less retained its preset function as a place to retain a king’s robe. The word has gained coinage over successive generations as an independent store for among others, preserving precious items for a ruler like gold, well highlighted in King Edward I's times. It is also a simple patio where clothes are hung from metal bars or tucked inside utility racks running from up to down. The modern wardrobe differs in one respect from the historical one for its triple partitioning: there are two linear compartments on either side with shelves as well as a middle space made up of hanging pegs and drawers, the latter being a latter-day addition, besides a clothes’ press in the higher central space on level with a person’s chest.
In the performing arts, the wardrobe is the actor's costumes, shoes, undergarments, hats and costume related personal props such as gloves, jewelry, parasols, fans and pocket books. The name wardrobe is a metonym for the contents of a wardrobe. In theater, a wardrobe supervisor is responsible for supervising all wardrobe related activities during the course of a theatrical run. A wardrobe department in film production employs costume designers and coordinators who clothe the performers.
Usage examples of "wardrobe".
In her wardrobe there are invariably a lot of sheer muslins, voiles and wash silks in white, mauve, greys, pinks, or delicate stripes, the outline following the fashion, voluminous, straight or clinging, the bodice tight with trimmings inset or full, beruffled, or kerchiefed.
She herself was too indifferent to clothes to know that it was the two pretty gowns she had brought out from her wardrobe that had now sent Beryl into the dumps.
Himself, Sir Gerald Tarrant no less, master of a Secret Service department, huddled in that wardrobe with his bloody bowler and brolly, sweating cobs, visualizing ghastly consequences.
He loaded it up like a truck with his buttonless wardrobe, and took off for Midland City.
The sideboards of massy plate, and the variegated wardrobes of silk and purple, were irregularly piled in the wagons, that always followed the march of a Gothic army.
As I still had for a shirt the blouse Andrews had given me at Millen, I now considered my wardrobe complete, and left the rest of the clothes to those who were more needy than I.
These bands competed with each other -- who had the best musicianship, wardrobe, choreography.
Chelsea dryly inquired, wondering instead if some paramour of his was about to increase her wardrobe.
The Pargeter family, having discussed the matter all day, and, so far as the girls were concerned, perfected their wardrobe most of the afternoon, were surprised by the emptiness of the streets, not realizing that almost the entire population of the town was packed into the shell-shaped centre of the Piazza.
Beatrice took off the pinny she was wearing, got a jacket from the wardrobe, found her handbag and shoes and tidied her hair.
A crude planked wardrobe stands in one corner, and the writing table has been strengthened with iron braces.
Everything that was on an open shelf or countertop had to be stowed and secured, a rubber band snapped around the roll of toilet paper, the water heater turned off, food in the fridge and cupboards cushioned against breakage, rugs rolled and furniture moved to pull in the living area and wardrobe slide-outs, awning stowed, and all the carefully reconnected propane appliances disconnected again.
In the course of this fortnight I made the acquaintance of Madame Pernon, and spent a good deal of money with her husband, a rich mercer, in refurnishing my wardrobe.
Before Sanders could answer, Ventress had stepped over to the larger of the two suitcases on the slatted stand beside the wardrobe.
Two real shuttered windows, a wide desk, a wooden armchair with cushions, a full-size bed with cotton sheets and a red woolen blanket-even a rug by the bed, a washstand, a white oak wardrobe for his garments, and a bookcase against the wall beside the desk.