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Wardrobe   /wˈɔrdrˌoʊb/   Listen
Wardrobe

noun
1.
A tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes.  Synonyms: closet, press.
2.
Collection of clothing belonging to one person.
3.
Collection of costumes belonging to a theatrical company.





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"Wardrobe" Quotes from Famous Books



... and better endowed by nature, had remained on the liner, taking advantage of the empty conditions of the boat to repair the ravage done to complexion and wardrobe by the sizzling, salt-laden wind which had tortured them since Colombo ...
— Desert Love • Joan Conquest
... all respectable people should be in bed and quiet. My room was only separated from the apartment in which my landlady and her daughter slept by a door, which was hidden on either side by a high wardrobe, through which, in spite of this precaution, voices could be heard very distinctly. I informed Balder of this fact, but, unfortunately, he utterly refused to take my advice and go quietly to bed. He said he could not sleep, and, unhappily, catching sight of my coffee-machine, ...
— The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various
... he was put "on space" he was still just about even with his debts. He seemed to himself to be living no better and it was only by careful counting-up that he could see how that dream of independence had eluded him. A more extensive wardrobe, a little better food, a more comfortable suite of rooms, an occasional dinner to some friends, loans to broken-down reporters, and the mysteriously vanished two thousand dollars ...
— The Great God Success • John Graham (David Graham Phillips)
... stock exchange if he'd ventured to appear there as scantily attired as he is in most of his statuary appearances. You certainly are not so green as to suppose that that suit he wears in his statues is the whole extent of his wardrobe?" ...
— Olympian Nights • John Kendrick Bangs
... little powdered chalk, with which I smeared my face. I then put on a long flowing cloak and a sombrero hat, part of the wardrobe accumulated by the Princess in ...
— The International Spy - Being the Secret History of the Russo-Japanese War • Allen Upward


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