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Wardrobe

noun

A tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes. Synonyms: closet, press.

Collection of clothing belonging to one person.

Collection of costumes belonging to a theatrical company.

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"Wardrobe" Quotes from Famous Books

... He will survive you for rather more than forty years; in the full enjoyment of your harem, your wardrobe, and ...

— Works, V1 • Lucian of Samosata

... hesitated, and said I would enter at once. Dr. Sandford said I was not fit for it, but it was on the whole the best plan. So it was arranged, that I should just wait a day or two in New York to get my wardrobe in order and then ...

— Daisy • Elizabeth Wetherell

... that morning by daybreak, put on one of the most magnificent habits his wardrobe afforded, and went up into the hall of twenty-four windows, from whence he perceived the sultan approaching, and received him at the foot of the great staircase, helping ...

— Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know • Various

... mathematical centre of the blanket. Then she filled ewers with cold water and arranged them round the machine. Then Aunt Annie went upstairs to see that the old blanket was well and truly laid, not too near the bed and not too near the mirror of the wardrobe, and that the machine did indeed rest in the mathematical centre of the blanket. (As a fact, Aunt Annie's mathematics never agreed with Sarah's.) Then Mrs. Knight went upstairs to bear witness that ...

— A Great Man - A Frolic • Arnold Bennett

... only one friend in the world, and that one was almost as powerless as he was, for it was only Jane. Jane was a sort of wardrobe woman to our fellows, and took care of the boxes. She had come at first, I believe, as a kind of apprentice—some of our fellows say from a Charity, but I don't know—and after her time was out, had stopped at so much ...

— Some Christmas Stories • Charles Dickens

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