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wardrobe

SubstantivVerbhäufig in Dialogen

  • Vereinigtes Königreich//ˈwɔːdɹəʊb//
  • Vereinigte Staaten//ˈwɔɹdɹoʊb//

A governmental office or department in a monarchy which purchases, keeps, and cares for royal clothes.

Substantiv

  1. 1

    veraltetA room for keeping clothes and armor safe, particularly a dressing room or walk-in closet beside a bedroom.

  2. 2

    übertragenA governmental office or department in a monarchy which purchases, keeps, and cares for royal clothes.

  3. 3

    übertragenThe building housing such a department.

  4. 4

    veraltetAny closet used for storing anything.

  5. 5

    A room for keeping costumes and other property safe at a theater; a prop room.

  6. 6

    übertragenThe department of a theater, movie studio, etc which purchases, keeps, and cares for costumes; its staff; its room(s) or building(s).

  7. 7

    A movable cupboard or cabinet designed for storing clothes, particularly as a large piece of bedroom furniture.

    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.

  8. 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. 9

    übertragenAnything that similarly stores or houses something.

    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.

  10. 10

    The contents of a wardrobe: an individual's entire collection of clothing.

  11. 11

    übertragenAny collection of clothing.

  12. 12

    übertragenAny collection of anything.

  13. 13

    veraltetA private chamber, particularly one used for sleeping or (euphemistic) urinating and defecating.

  14. 14

    veraltetBadger feces, particularly used in tracking game.

Herkunft

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *wer- Proto-Indo-European *wor-tús Proto-Germanic *warduz Proto-Germanic *-āną Proto-Germanic *wardō Proto-Germanic *-āną Proto-Germanic *wardāną Frankish *wardēnbor. Early Medieval Latin wardō Old Northern French warder Proto-Indo-European *Hrew-? Proto-Indo-European *Hrewp-der. Proto-Germanic Frankish *roubader. Old French robe Old Northern French warderoubebor. Middle English warderobe English wardrobe From Middle English warderobe, from Old Northern French warderoube, wardereube, northern variants of Old French garderobe, from garder (“to keep safe”) + robe. Subsequently influenced by various senses of garderobe as they developed in French. Doublet of garderobe. By surface analysis, ward + robe.

Verb

  1. 1

    To act as a wardrobe department; to provide clothing or sets of clothes.

    […] impressed with the quality of the talent and production, good wardrobing and speedy pacing.

  2. 2

    To order clothing online and return it for a refund after having worn it.

    Wardrobing, the act of buying a nice piece of clothing, wearing it once, and returning it, is an $8.8 billion problem for the retail industry.

  3. 3

    To order multiple sizes of the same clothing online and return all but the one that fits best.

    Wardrobing is where people will order the same thing in three different sizes to see which one fits and then they return the other two, not realizing that those other two most of the time don’t go back on that retailer’s shelves.

Formen

Plural
wardrobes
Präteritum
wardrobed
Partizip II
wardrobed
Partizip I
wardrobing
3. Person Singular
wardrobes
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