wardrobe
/ˈwɔɹdɹoʊb/ noun B1- A governmental office or department in a monarchy which purchases, keeps, and cares for royal clothes.
- The building housing such a department.
- A room for keeping costumes and other property safe at a theater; a prop room.
- The department of a theater, movie studio, etc which purchases, keeps, and cares for costumes; its staff; its room(s) or building(s).
- A movable cupboard or cabinet designed for storing clothes, particularly as a large piece of bedroom furniture.
- A tall built-in cupboard or closet for storing clothes, often including a rail for coat-hangers, and usually located in a bedroom.
- Anything that similarly stores or houses something.
- The contents of a wardrobe: an individual's entire collection of clothing.
Plural wardrobes
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In a wardrobe were many green dresses, made of silk and satin and velvet; and all of them fitted Dorothy exactly.
I was still looking rather ruefully after the rapidly disappearing luggage-van which contained my wardrobe, when Holmes pulled my sleeve and pointed up the line.
Sir Henry had to assure him that it was not so and pacify him by giving him a considerable part of his old wardrobe, the London outfit having now all arrived.
I remembered how the baronet had told me that he had handed his old wardrobe to Barrymore.
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