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wardrober Obs. exc. Hist.|ˈwɔːdrəʊbə(r)|
Forms: 5 ward(e)ropere, Sc. wardropar, 5–7 wardroper, (6 werdroper), 6 Sc. wardraipper, -raipair, 5 warderober, 5– wardrober.
[ad. OF. warderobier, dial. var. of garderobier, -rober, f. warde-, garderobe: see prec.]
1. An officer of a royal household who had charge of the robes, wearing apparel, etc.
a1400–50Bk. Curtasye 481 in Babees Bk., Þo vsshere schalle bydde þo wardropere Make redy for alle nyȝt be-fore þe fere. c1420Wyntoun Cron. viii. xviii. 2867 Prewaly his wardropere He gert to þis Robert ber. Ibid. 2877 Þe siluir to þe wardropar He gaf. 1430–40Lydg. Bochas ix. xxxiv. (1554) 214 By processe he was made wardropere. c1475Rauf Coilȝear 276 The King buskit him sone, with scant of Squyary. Wachis and Wardroparis all war away. 1500–20Dunbar Poems li, Of James Dog, kepar of the Quenis wardrop... The Wardraipper of Wenus boure, To giff a doublett he is als doure, As it war off ane futt syd frog. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. iv. viii. 275 One who had well licked his fingers under Queen Margaret (whose Wardroper he was). 1878J. Gairdner Rich. III, iv. 129 An indenture dated the 27th of June in the first year of Richard III, in which Peter Curteys, the king's wardrober, undertakes to furnish..the articles specified for the coronation.
†2. The tailor attached to a religious house. Obs.
1526Visit. Dioc. Norwich (Camden) 200 Uxor scissoris videlicet the wardroper's wiff. |