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gown
English
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman gune, goune (“fur-trimmed coat, pelisse”), from Old French goune, from Late Latin gunna (“leather garment, a fur”), from Ancient Greek ????? (goúna, “coarse garment”), of unknown origin. Perhaps from a Balkan or Apennine language. Alternatively, perhaps from Scythian, from Proto-Iranian *gawnám (“fur”) (compare Younger Avestan ????????????????????? (gaona, “body hair”) and Ossetian ???? (?un)).(Can this(+) etymology be sourced?).
Pronunciation
- enPR: goun, IPA(key): /?a?n/
- Rhymes: -a?n
Noun
gown (plural gowns)
- A loose, flowing upper garment.
- A woman's ordinary outer dress, such as a calico or silk gown.
- The official robe of certain professionals and scholars, such as university students and officers, barristers, judges, etc.
- The dress of civil officers, as opposed to military officers.
- (by metonymy) The university community.
- In the perennial town versus gown battles, townies win some violent battles, but the collegians are winning the war.
- A loose wrapper worn by gentlemen within doors; a dressing gown.
- Any sort of dress or garb.
- The robe worn by a surgeon.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
gown (third-person singular simple present gowns, present participle gowning, simple past and past participle gowned)
- To dress in a gown, to don or garb with a gown.
References
Anagrams
- Wong, wong
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wardrobe
English
Etymology
From Middle English warderobe, from Old Northern French warderoube, wardereube, northern variants of Old French garderobe, from garder (“to keep safe”) + robe. Subsequently influenced by various senses of garderobe as they developed in French.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?w??d???b/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?w??d?o?b/
Noun
wardrobe (plural wardrobes)
- (obsolete) A room for keeping clothes and armor safe, particularly a dressing room or walk-in closet beside a bedroom.
- (figuratively) A governmental office or department in a monarchy which purchases, keeps, and cares for royal clothes.
- (figuratively) The building housing such a department.
- (obsolete) Any closet used for storing anything.
- A room for keeping costumes and other property safe at a theater; a prop room.
- (figuratively) The department of a theater, movie studio, etc which purchases, keeps, and cares for costumes; its staff; its room(s) or building(s).
- A movable cupboard or cabinet designed for storing clothes, particularly as a large piece of bedroom furniture.
- A tall built-in cupboard or closet for storing clothes, often including a rail for coat-hangers, and usually located in a bedroom.
- (figuratively, uncommon) Anything that similarly stores or houses something.
- 1605, 1st Pt. Jeronimo:
- Now death... crams his store house to the top with bloud,
Might I now and Andrea in one fight,
Make vp thy wardroope
Richer by a knight.
- Now death... crams his store house to the top with bloud,
- 1605, 1st Pt. Jeronimo:
- The contents of a wardrobe: an individual's entire collection of clothing.
- (figuratively) Any collection of clothing.
- (figuratively, uncommon) Any collection of anything.
- (obsolete) A private chamber, particularly one used for sleeping or (euphemistic) urinating and defecating.
- (hunting, obsolete) Badger feces, particularly used in tracking game.
Synonyms
- (movable furniture for storing clothes): armoir, dresser; cupboard (UK); closet (regional US), press (Irish & Scots), shrank
- (department overseeing costumes): costume department
- (sleeping chamber): See bedroom
- (lavatory or outhouse): See Thesaurus:bathroom
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- lowboy
- tallboy
Verb
wardrobe (third-person singular simple present wardrobes, present participle wardrobing, simple past and past participle wardrobed)
- (intransitive) To act as a wardrobe department, to provide clothing or sets of clothes.
- 1954 December 11, Billboard, p. 20:
- […] impressed with the quality of the talent and production, good wardrobing and speedy pacing.
- 1954 December 11, Billboard, p. 20:
References
- "wardrobe, n." in the Oxford English Dictionary (1921), Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Anagrams
- bareword, bore draw, bore-draw, drawbore
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