WARDROBE, a closet, or little room adjoining to a bed-chamber, serving to dispose and keep a person's apparel in; or, for a servant to lodge in, to be at hand to wait, &c. Wardrobe, in a prince's court, is an apartment wherein his robes, wearing apparel, and other necessaries, are preserved under the care and direction of proper officers; as the master of the wardrobe, clerk, &c. of the wardrobe.
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