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.
| 1333–4 Durham MS. Cell. Roll, In ij lib. de Maces de garderob. a 1450 Knt. de la Tour (1868) 111 The kingges doughter..made hym to be norisshed in her garderobe. 1470–85 Malory 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. 1606 Table Unprinted Acts 18 Jas. VI, An acquitance and discharge to the earle of Dumbar of the Kings Jewels and garderob. 1837 Sir F. Palgrave Merch. & Friar i. (1844) 24 ‘We have one of their eggs, set in silver, in our garderobe’: exclaimed John Vinesaulf, the cellarer. 1848 Lytton Harold ii. iii, ‘Verily yes; vault, coffer, and garde-robe—stall and meuse—are well nigh drained’, answered the monk. 1851 Turner Dom. Archit. I. iv. 150 He built a new chapel, with a garderobe. 1856 J. R. Walbran Ripon, etc. 73 The walls of two spacious gard-robes, communicating with the dormitory. |
| attrib. 1867 Murray's Guide Yorkshire 282 A chamber with fireplace and garderobe seat. |