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garderobe Now only Hist.|ˈgɑːdrəʊb| Also 4, 7 garderob, 6 gardrop, 6, 9 gardrobe. [a. F. garderobe (= It. guarda-robba: in ONF. warderobe: see wardrobe), f. garde-r to keep, guard + robe robe.] Properly, a locked-up chamber in which articles of dress, stores, etc. are kept, a store-room, armoury, wardrobe (occas. also the contents of this); by extension, a private room, a bed-chamber; also a privy.
1333–4Durham MS. Cell. Roll, In ij lib. de Maces de garderob. a1450Knt. de la Tour (1868) 111 The kingges doughter..made hym to be norisshed in her garderobe. 1470–85Malory Arthur v. x, I haue ben brought vp in the garderobe with the noble kynge Arthur many yeres for to take hede to his armour. 15..Inv. R. Wardrobe (1815) 145 margin, In Feb. 1567 six of thir peces was tint in the K[ing's] gardrop at his death. 1606Table Unprinted Acts 18 Jas. VI, An acquitance and discharge to the earle of Dumbar of the Kings Jewels and garderob. 1837Sir F. Palgrave Merch. & Friar i. (1844) 24 ‘We have one of their eggs, set in silver, in our garderobe’: exclaimed John Vinesaulf, the cellarer. 1848Lytton Harold ii. iii, ‘Verily yes; vault, coffer, and garde-robe—stall and meuse—are well nigh drained’, answered the monk. 1851Turner Dom. Archit. I. iv. 150 He built a new chapel, with a garderobe. 1856J. R. Walbran Ripon, etc. 73 The walls of two spacious gard-robes, communicating with the dormitory. attrib.1867Murray's Guide Yorkshire 282 A chamber with fireplace and garderobe seat. |