Noun: wardrobe
| Singular | wardrobe |
| Plural | wardrobes |
Sample Sentences
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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. [1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:]
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Now death... crams his store house to the top with bloud,
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Might I now and Andrea in one fight,
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Make vp thy wardroope
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Richer by a knight. [1605, 1st Pt. Jeronimo]
Nouns inflected like wardrobe
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *wer-
3. Proto-Indo-European *wor-tús
4. Proto-Germanic *warduz
5. Proto-Germanic *-āną
6. Proto-Germanic *wardō
7. Proto-Germanic *-āną
8. Proto-Germanic *wardāną
9. Frankish *wardēnbor.
10. Early Medieval Latin wardō
11. Old Northern French warder
12. Proto-Indo-European *Hrew-?
13. Proto-Indo-European *Hrewp-der.
14. Proto-Germanic
15. Frankish *roubader.
16. Old French robe
17. Old Northern French warderoubebor.
18. Middle English warderobe
19. English wardrobe
20. 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. See: Middle English Nouns '
warderobe'.
Verbs referencing "wardrobe"
Portuguese Nouns
guarda-roupa, Galician Nouns
gardarroupa.