wardrobe

noun

1. 1

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

2. 2

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

3. 3

   figurativeThe building housing such a department.

4. 4

   obsoleteAny closet used for storing anything.

5. 5

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

6. 6

   figurativeThe 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

   figurativeAnything that similarly stores or houses something.

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10. 10

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

11. 11

    figurativeAny collection of clothing.

12. 12

    figurativeAny collection of anything.

13. 13

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

14. 14

    obsoleteBadger feces, particularly used in tracking game.

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.

Forms

plural

wardrobes

past tense

wardrobed

past participle

wardrobed

present participle

wardrobing

third person singular

wardrobes